Transnational Organized Crimes

Eliminating business opportunities for the organized firms was a good way to restrain the organized crimes. One approach was the United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime, an multilateral treaty against transnational organized crime, which offered a global legal framework to assist identify, prevent and demolish the organized criminal groups. 170 parties has involved in the ratification of this treaty. It helped a lot in improving the ability of States to trace and deter the money laundering with technology and training. This contributed to solving the problem at it’s sources by cutting off the supplies of profit. Besides, eliminating the interstate differential on alcohol and cigarettes could help remove the unauthorized …show more content…
It was also considered beneficial to the society. For example, if a person costed $2000 for committing a crime, and gained $5000, then this person gained $3000. It was regarded as an efficient crime. It was better that the resources spent to deter this crime was no more than the total amount of gains. Besides, the another typical example was the self defense. If the life of a person was threatened by someone, then he or she would take certain measure to conduct self-protection. People all knew nothing was more important than to be alive so they would fight against the one who was violating them although they knew they may commit crimes. Sometimes, a person would kill others in order to keep his own life. There were usually two results of this issue. The first one was that he would not lose anything when the self dense was judged as a justifiable one. The second one was that he was put into prison if it was judged as a non-justifiable one. But the benefit outweighed the lost because he at lease kept his life. It was common to believe that the person who committed the crime was the beneficiary. I have learned from the text that the society gained most from the efficient crime. Because people who commit the crime were members of the society, and the society gained most if the benefits of the crimes outweighed the …show more content…
Several punishments for crimes have been discussed in the textbook, such as fines and shaming. Fine was one of the most common punishments for illegal activities, and it was determined by the severity of the crime. The amount of the fine was not the main reason that influence people to commit the crime. They were less sensitive to the changes in the severity of punishment. They tended to commit the crimes that had lower changes to be fined. It was a good approach in punishing people who committed non-violent crimes. While it may not effective when it came to the violent