Is the Criminal Mind a Product of Learned Behavior? Examining the Causes of Crime

Crime, as we all know, is an antisocial behavior. But why do people commit crimes? Why some commit crimes without considering the repercussion of their actions? Is it a learned behavior? Could be, but there are several other factors that can lead to a criminal mind. And these factors could be psychological, biological, social or economic. As a matter of fact, for every crime committed, one or combination of these factors is often the reason behind it.

It is of utmost importance for parents to maintain a healthy relationship with their children. Caring and loving parents who cherish and support their children instill in them a positive self image. These children are generally well-balanced in relating to others and are less likely to commit crimes later in their lives. On the other hand, children that grew up in an abusive and disruptive home will most likely abuse their own children. Therefore, children that were neglected and abused are more likely to commit crimes later in life. Equally, kids who have been sexually abused growing up often become sexual predators as adults. Studies have shown that most serial rapists had experienced some form of cruel abuse in the early stages of their lives.

Researchers have also discovered that there is a connection between brain activity and criminal behavior. They concluded that certain substances released by the brain to generate body activity, plays a major role in influencing antisocial behavior. These substances are called neurochemicals. Serotonin and dopamine are the two major neurochemicals that can significantly affect a person's emotional state of mind. Serotonin decreases aggression while dopamine other hand increases aggression. The researchers discovered that there were higher levels of dopamine and lower levels of serotonin in people that commit violent crimes.

Now, let us examine the social and economic causes of crime. When you take a look at most of the people that commit crimes such as burglary, robbery, car theft and shoplifting you'll find out that a lot of them have a very poor educational background. Most of them cannot read or write above sixth grade level. They rarely have employment history and if they do their earnings are at the minimum wage or below. So, some of these people have to make a choice between living in poverty and a lucrative crime. Peer pressure is another factor that can influence people to commit crimes. Kids wanting to "belong" tend to do things they will not normally do to "fit in" with their peer group. Kids not participating in any sports or social programs tend to fall into this trap. Also, children who have been neglected by their families often become gang members. And we all know what these criminal gangs do. Drug and alcohol abuse is yet another factor that causes people to commit crimes. Both alcohol and drugs greatly impairs someone's ability to make good decisions and reduces a person's restraints, therefore giving them more courage to commit a crime. People commit crimes to support their drug habit.

In conclusion, now that we understand the major causes of crime in our society, we must all work together to do the best we can to make crime more difficult to commit or reduce the opportunities for criminals to commit them.

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Alarming Statistics on Rising Crime Rates - Why is Crime So Popular?

Not only are the continually rising crime rates in the U.S. terribly alarming and valid cause for great concern, but equally curious and unfortunate is the public's perception that crime and its related drama are somehow entertaining.

The most popular television show in the United States is currently 'CSI' (Crime Scene Investigations). Drawing in an estimated 84 million viewers, the show has been a fan favorite since its 2000 debut. Now in its ninth season, CSI continues to pull in regular viewers.

Criminal Minds, a televised series now in its fourth season, also receives praise from regular TV watchers. The fascination with crime series and the topic of violence and unlawful activity on film is nothing new; people have crowded into theaters and gathered in front of their TV screens to watch this type of action play out for decades.

As life imitates art (or is it the other way around?), cities across America continue to see occurrences of crime increase. New Orleans, Louisiana, tops the list as the most dangerous American city, leading in areas of both violent crime (they had over 200 murders in 2008) and property crime. The small town of Gary, Indiana was a close contender in 2nd place. Los Angeles, California, New York, New York and Atlanta, Georgia all had disturbingly high numbers of violent crime, including murder, as well as thefts, break-ins and burglaries, car thefts, and other incidents of property crime.

American citizens, despite their inexplicable acceptance of criminal topic matter as venues for entertainment, spend a good deal of money to protect themselves, their homes and their families. Reliable security systems become more common every year, as people realize they need far more comprehensive home safety plans than a dog and a peephole on the front door.

Citizens arm themselves with mace, personal alarms and take classes on self-defense, making very deliberate efforts to devise potentially life-saving responses to an attack. Car alarms and the 'club' devices (an implement that attaches to a steering wheel to deter auto theft) are also regularly purchased.

Obviously, people are aware of the threatening danger of crime, and most people are responsible enough to make efforts to protect themselves, and yet they almost promote it by accepting crime-related subject matter as an acceptable form of entertainment. Isn't it possible that, if crime was not given top billing on television or in the cinema, maybe it would not be such a top-rated pastime amongst real-life citizens?

It's not unreasonable to imagine that, were the media to cease glorifying violence and unsavory behavior, it would become less attractive to act out in this manner amongst society. Actions speak louder than words. If our culture stops acting as if criminal lifestyles are essentially fascinating, we could very well witness an alarmingly positive decrease in the negative statistics that currently pervade the U.S. crime scene.

S.L. Robertson writes about GE Home Security, personal safety and house alarm systems. Robertson has long been regarded as an expert in the field of reliable home safety and affordable security systems.

New Thoughts on How to Reduce Drug Usage and Crime

Crime is becoming rampant due to drug usage. Drug usage is becoming rampant due to those wanting to escape from responsibility. Escape from responsibility is becoming rampant because of the tyranny of the law and legal system in our country. The legal system and the laws and lawyers are becoming more active and domineering because of crime. It is a self-feeding system and as all self-feeding systems it needs to have a brake put on it at some point.

The things that have been tried in the past won't work. It needs to have some innovative thinking brought to bear on the problem. Different ideas need to be brainstormed as to what place in the links between these factors the stopgap should be put.

Let's take the first problem, that of crime becoming rampant because of the need for drugs. People are using drugs to replace God in their lives. They have lost the ability to trust society or religion for any answers to their problems and to answer their unanswered questions for them.

By using the drugs, they feel powerful enough that they do not need to be dependent on society and its educational practices or the churches and their educational practices. They simply determine, then to create their own society. The more that fall into this drug culture, the stronger it becomes. If not stopped it can become a culture of great power, as the taking of drugs eliminates the conscience which is what the spiritual path is all about, you remember. When the conscience is eliminated and in most cases destroyed by the taking of drugs, then crime is rampant within the culture, even against other members of the drug culture. They do not just commit crime against those not taking drugs, but the elimination of the conscience allows them to commit crime even against their own, be it mother, father, brother, sister or friend.

The taking of drugs destroys any hope of their soul having any influence over the form. The drugs themselves actually kill off brain cells. The same is true of all drugs, be it nicotine from tobacco or alcohol or any other of the drugs now in use. They all will prevent clear thinking.

Our government has tried every way they can think of to stop drug trafficking. Nothing has worked. Perhaps the answer is legalization. This would certainly stop the huge amounts of money that exchange hands. This would stop the high street cost and therefore the need to commit crimes to get the money to buy drugs.

It is a known fact that when something is out of reach it becomes very desirable. This is true for all humans. Perhaps this is the only way to gain control of the drug problem is to lose control. Sometimes this is what it takes. This would put the problem directly where it belongs, each person taking direct responsibility from the age of twelve on as to whether he wanted to live his life in a drug haze, or to be completely free of mind altering contaminants. There hasn't been an aggressive enough campaign from the correct angles on this subject. It needs to be approached from an educational and spiritual viewpoint combined.

The next link in the chain is that of crime to obtain the money to buy the drugs. Drugs are slave masters. They entail loss of freedom because of the ability to be addictive. Crime can also be addictive. Once a person "gets away with a crime" it becomes a powerful stimulus in his mind to know or think, anyway, that he has outwitted those seemingly much more mentally powerful than he is.

Therefore, those trying to stop crime need to learn to think like a criminal. There needs to be schooling given that gives the law enforcement officers the ability to think like a criminal.

There also has to be a powerful goal to be obtained. One suggestion would be financial bonuses for law enforcement officers for directly being responsible for catching criminals.

If it isn't always possible to determine who is responsible for solving the case, for instance in a case as big as the Oklahoma bombing, the reward money should go to the victims families.

Where will the reward money come from? There are many sources. One suggestion would be from minor traffic violations. In other words, an increase in minor traffic offenses such as parking tickets, speeding, not wearing seat belts, etc. This puts the responsibility right back into the hands of the people who will benefit from a reduction overall in crime. It will come from the people who want to have a crime free country giving to the victims of crime or to the fund that will honor the people who catch the criminals.

The next place in the linkage between all this is in the law and the lawyers, those making the laws and those hired to protect and defend people who have been accused of breaking the law. The lawyers need to understand how the mind of someone works who is out to "get what they can" from situations that should never be defendable in a court of law. These are the people who do not want to take any responsibility for themselves.

One case I can think of are those who sue a restaurant over coffee that is too hot. Every mother teaches her child to be aware of hot drinks. What kind of a mother would she be if she did not do this? Have these people forgotten what they learned at their mother's knee? The responsibility in this case is clearly their own. There are many other instances where this is happening.

Lawyers need to attend a school of drama where they act out many different roles of being in business or offering services where they are "sued" by other lawyers in the school for things that will immediately seem ridiculous and point up where all this is leading. There needs to be much more control over lawyers by lawyers as to whether they take these shoddy cases. They are, of course, after the money these cases will bring. There needs to be a stop gap put into the rewards these lawsuits bring. The profession of law needs to police itself. Once again we come back to education through acting out the roles of those you are offering service to.

This is a new direction that education needs to take at every step in our lives. Walking a mile in the other person's shoes, learning how the mind of a criminal works. Those who sue for ridiculous reasons are just as much a criminal as those who rob a bank. Those who take on these cases are just as guilty. What they are all doing is hurting everyone and feeding, in a round robin manner, the monster of money. Medical lawsuits are some of the worst. Fraud is another big crime, almost as bad as murder. Courses in responsibility need to be implemented in the schooling of our children because it obviously isn't coming from the parents. They didn't get it themselves so cannot teach it.

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Consensual Crimes - Not Actual Crimes

While numerous violent criminals and white-collar criminals roam free, and innocent people rot in prison and on death row for crimes they didn't commit, law-enforcement resources are used to destroy the lives of consenting adults who do not harm anyone. One article I ready suggested that approximately four million people are arrested each year and 350,000 are in prison for consensual crimes.

I am considering a "consensual crime" to be defined as a criminal act committed by two or more people, who consent to involvement, and does not involve any non-consenting individuals. The following is a non-exclusive list of criminal acts that could be considered consensual between the parties: prostitution, adultery, homosexual conduct, sodomy, gambling, some drug use (marijuana), and assisted suicide.

Another name for these sort of "crimes" may be victimless crimes, because they do not harm anyone as they have no impact on a person other than those who chose to engage in the activity. Thus, there is no victim.

When people are arrested for those crimes, their ability to remain employed is jeopardized. A conviction and prison sentence virtually guarantees the loss of their livelihoods. Upon release from prison, the criminal record may impede their ability to find new jobs.

Even if they are not convicted of a crime, the arrest record alone can significantly harm their lives. It too can lead to loss of jobs and difficulty finding new ones, and it may interfere with other aspects of their lives, such as the ability to obtain credit, purchase a car, rent an apartment, maintain custody of children or to vote.

Thus, the financial impact of either a conviction or arrest may mean these people need long-term assistance from government or charities. Or they may resort to serious crime based on what they learned from real criminals while incarcerated. This is all a huge drain on the economy and is in addition to the costs of arresting, prosecuting, and imprisoning them.

To avoid conviction and prison, the accused may have to spend thousands of dollars on legal fees. For certain crimes, the amounts can run to tens or hundreds of thousands of dollars. When faced with the possibility of causing financial ruin to themselves and their families, some contemplate suicide and may see it as the only way out. If this is the action the accused takes, that impacts society from the loss of productivity, and more importantly, it impacts the family and friends of the accused.

Government causes all this turmoil in the lives of consenting adults to "protect" them from possible consequences that might occur to them - and them alone - from their own freely chosen acts.

Because these arrests devastate the lives of harmless people, a strong argument can be made that Christian mercy, along with the mercy taught by other religions and philosophies, is reason enough for leaving consenting adults alone, but the irony rarely seen is that often it is in the name of Christian principles that these laws exist or are pursued....

Law-enforcement resources are wasted investigating consensual acts

Government's focus on consensual acts leads to more unethical conduct in another way. To the extent law-enforcement resources are used against consenting adults, there is a corresponding reduction in the resources available for apprehending criminals that pose a true threat to society-those criminals who would cause harm to others and only seek to benefit themselves.

An enormous need exists to increase efforts to arrest those who harm the innocent. They victimize someone every two seconds in the United States, and five out of six Americans may someday be victims of violent crime. According to author Peter McWilliams, arrests are being made for only about 20% of crimes committed against persons or property. He also says one in six murderers gets away, eight of ten burglars aren't arrested, and only 5% of forcible rapes lead to prison time.

McWilliams further reports that $10 billion in personal property is stolen each year and never recovered. Billions more are illicitly obtained through white-collar crime. Even if the person is not harmed, if the victim files an insurance claim or takes action to recover damages, this alone ties up resources and takes resources from the economy, causing an impact that was definitely undesired.

Using law-enforcement resources against consensual acts also makes the U.S. more vulnerable to terrorism. According to The 9/11 Commission Report, in 2000 there were twice as many FBI agents assigned to enforcing drug laws than assigned to counterterrorism. The FBI's head of counterterrorism told the Commission he wishes he'd had "500 analysts looking at Osama Bin Ladin . . . instead of two." And former Vice President Al Gore charged that prior to the September 11 attacks, the Bush administration's Justice Department had more FBI agents investigating a suspected brothel in New Orleans than monitoring Bin Ladin and al Qaeda.

There obviously is a strong need for law enforcement to improve its responses to real crimes committed against persons or property. Yet each year in the U.S., law enforcement applies some $50 billion to arrest, prosecute, and lock up persons who commit consensual crimes. Some estimates are that roughly half of all law-enforcement resources are used in connection with consensual crimes.

Those resources could go a long way toward remedying the current deficiencies in law enforcement's handling of more serious crimes. Due to this misallocation of resources, many violent and sociopathic criminals are able to escape justice and continue preying on the public. The same principle applies to white-collar criminals who may never be detected... lest we forget the Enron and WorldCom scandals.

Dax Garvin, Attorney and Counselor At law is an experienced Austin DWI Attorney.

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I worked in the Travis County Attorney's Office from August, 2002, until October, 2003, when I entered into private practice with a mid-size Austin civil litigation firm, where I enhanced my skills for legal research, writing, motion practice, and working with insurance companies from the defense perspective.

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Compensation For Victims of Crime

Anyone who's been a victim of crime knows how upset and angry and violated you can feel because of it. What a lot of them don't know, however, is that it's possible to be entitled to compensation, depending on the crime that was committed and how things took place. If you think you might be entitled to compensation for a crime committed against you, there are several things you need to do and specific people that you'll need to talk to in order to get help.

Notify The Authorities

The first thing any crime victim should do - other than get immediate medical attention if it's needed - is to let the authorities know that a crime has been committed. Everything from murder to identity theft to a purse snatching can have important evidence surrounding it. If the police don't get there quickly, some of that evidence can be lost. The sooner you tell them about the crime the sooner they can start working to help you - and the more information you'll be able to tell them. Everything will still be fresh in your mind, making you more helpful to the police when they ask you questions about what happened to you.

Get A Good Lawyer

Don't try to do things alone. The person who committed the crime against you will have a lawyer, and if you're trying to get compensation for your injuries you should have one, as well. Whether the person who committed the crime is convicted of it or not, you still may be able to get damages. In other words, don't let a lack of conviction in criminal court stop you from pursuing a civil case against the offender. A lawyer can help you do that, and it's never a good idea to approach the offender directly or try to handle a court case on your own. There are too many subtleties to the law for you to grasp quickly, and a lawyer will know much more about what you should do.

Be Realistic About Your Case

It's very important to be reasonable and realistic. Getting compensation is important, and you certainly should have that, but asking for millions when the crime wasn't that serious isn't the way to go. Even 'pain and suffering' doesn't cost that much, and people are likely not going to side with you if they assume you're only after a lot of money for a relatively small crime. In cases where the crime is much more serious, more compensation may be in order.

Whatever you decide to do about getting compensation, you should still report the crime. The offender should have to answer to authorities for what he or she has done, even if you never seek compensation for damages. Don't just let that person get away with committing a crime. Be sure to talk to police and any other necessary authority figures until the case is resolved.

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White Collar Crimes 101

The majority of "white collar" crimes are committed by salaried professionals using deception, as opposed to violence or force, to perpetrate theft or fraud. These crimes can be either misdemeanor or felony infractions of the law, and these types of crimes can be prosecuted in state court, federal court, or both.

There are many types of these offenses and most involved theft by deception or fraud. Such crimes include offenses such as:

o Bank Fraud

o Bribery

o Credit Card Fraud

o Forgery

o Embezzlement

o Tax Evasion

Individuals convicted of committing a white collar crime can face punishments such as fines, restitution, forfeiture, or imprisonment. Additionally, individuals accused or convicted of a white collar crime may be subject to additional consequences such as loss of employment and loss of pension. Situations such as these can threaten the financial stability and future of both the accused and their family.

In many cases, individuals under investigation for these crimes are aware that they are under investigation. Suspected individuals may be the focus of internal investigations or private investigations. White collar crimes do not represent an immediate threat to society; therefore, white collar crimes are often investigated by federal authorities for a year or more before charges are filed against an individual suspected of committing these types of crimes. Individuals who believe they are under investigation for a white collar crime should contact an attorney for assistance.

If you are currently under investigation, have been contacted by law enforcement for questioning, or have received a subpoena for records or testimony, you should contact a lawyer immediately. Individuals should never agree to speak with law enforcement officials in regard to white collar crime investigations until they have discussed the matter with their attorney. You want to be sure that information provided to law enforcement officers cannot not be used against you in court. For that reason, it is imperative to consult an attorney as soon as you learn you are under investigation.

Disclosure: I am not an attorney. This information is correct to the best of my knowledge. Laws may change over time. If you are facing federal financial or fraud charges, consider at least speaking with an attorney; many offer free consultations.

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New Forms of Organized Crime

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) to indicate that nearly $ 1 trillion, from criminal activities, circulating daily in the financial markets.

The UN, moreover, suggests a world market for illicit drugs more than the entire oil industry, moving a year more than $ 400 billion dollars.

This high volume of financial resources generated by organized crime to be hidden, disguised and integrated into economic activity permitted.

It is possible to state that the mafias no longer a matter of police to become a financial and geopolitical issue of first magnitude A clandestine world buzzing, not subjected to any kind of law or democratic rules, employs hundreds of thousands of people.

The 'business' includes trade in drugs, weapons (possibly even nuclear), sophisticated technologies obtained through industrial espionage or secret purchase of slaves and white children, human organs used in transplants, transport, passports and visas for falsified entries for illegal immigrants, in addition to practice 'traditional' authorities and of bribery of politicians, extortion, exploitation of prostitution and child and adult control of cities or entire regions based on force and terror imposed by well-armed gangs and organized according to a paramilitary structure.

Another important factor to be considered is the transnational criminal organizations tripled the area of cultivation of coca in Colombia, due to new agricultural techniques despite fumigation under sponsorship of the America.

Organized crime looked further, to try coca plantations in Georgia, on the island of Samoa and the Democratic Republic of Congo (former Zaire). But, still, washing the dirty money in big on shore, as Miami and New York.

The model is increasingly sprayed, characterized by the limited knowledge among its members, the time when the operators of the crime held off business. Ability to articulate world, which drew of new world order of organized crime after the fall of "empire" Soviet in the early 1990: The international organized crime, an imaginary threat to many in 1990, was already a global emergency in 1993.

The major unions of the East and the West gather services and personnel as soon colonizing Western Europe and the United States, increasing drug trafficking in half trillion dollars per year by washing and reinvested in legal ventures an amount estimated at a quarter of a trillion of dollars annually.

Much of the phenomenal growth originated from the fact that they had free access to a territory that covers half the continent of Europe and much of Asia - one sixth of the land mass- Afloat and essentially defenseless.

According to the Italian police released in Sicily in 2001, a survey done by the Russian general Vitor Cheborachev confirms: "eighty percent of the banking system of Moscow is in the hands of the Mafia Russian.

It happened that dismantle the structures the state has disappeared completely and entered a different structure (the Russian mafia) to replace it. The movement of cartels and mafias in the world, however, does not yet constitute a sort of world federation of organized crime.

Since 1980, the Cosa Nostra became a wide structure.

A direct way of achieving the mafia globalization has been the practice to introduce, clandestine, illegal immigrants in the core countries of Europe and the USA. This was the procedure, for example the Chinese Triads and the Yakuza.

The Triads smuggled eight thousand illegal immigrants in Italy in just two years, almost half of all the Chinese community in the country. (...) The tens of thousands of Chinese illegally entering the "head-of-serpent" of the triad were not only more profitable that the heroin, but also a practical necessity. Hong Kong, a showcase of Triads in the world for over a century, revert to communist China in 1997.

The Triads could return to land from where it had fled after the communist - in fact many were returned - but she would never be their homeland. More discreet, and operating in the economic level, the Japanese Yakuza "was investing heavily in all states of the European Union. Authorities of the Japanese police confirmed that she washed money everywhere, in every kind of institution financial and industry, legal or illegal - just as the Sicilian Mafia, they combined a visit to Italy.

Mafia groups that had a tradition of activities limited to their own regions began to join, probably in the late 80s, to extend its influence to the most remote regions of the planet. Included in that table the old Italian and American mafia, the Japanese Yakuza, the Triads based in Hong Kong and Southeast Asia, as well as the new Mafia groups in rapid expansion in West Africa and the newest Russian mafias (arising from the dismantling of the Soviet state).

These episodic business between mafias are indicating with certainty that these criminal organizations will be adjusting to the process of economic globalization, which main feature is the relatively free flow of capital with the support systems highly computerized.

In other words, the dimensions and forms of organization of crime in the contemporary world have nothing to do with what existed two or three decades. Compared with the current heads of the crime, Al Capone, for example, is a robber of backyard. It is estimated that Capone fortune of not more than $ 40 million, which is a lot of money, but nothing that is comparable to the billions currently moved by mafias.

While national states seek a solution through international strategic cooperation, which is more effective for the prevention, combating and prosecuting organized crime, through multilateral organizations like the UN, the criminal organizations by passing tax havens and new routes, leaving behind -- finally - the metaphor of the times of Al Capone: laundry, bakery corner of houses of gambling ... are things of the past.

Today, the narco-capital terms "fat" with the greatest naturalness in sessions, live and electronic, financial markets daily. After almost two decades of hegemony of the thesis of the minimum, the economic science is immersed in the search for new paths. The so-called "market fundamentalism" - that suggested the end of the story - already suggest "greater invention of the state in the lives of citizens, now emphasizing the need to combat the recession Keynesian-style, now to invest in national security.

The impasse that wins new contours in the 21st century is placed in the following way by where to draw the line between pure private sector activities and those that require public involvement through ownership or regulation is a question.

How to manage services of those holding public or private regulatory involving social externalities is another. There is little doubt that we cannot answer them. The lesson may well have been that some externalities are too big to be faced by the private sector and always require government funding through collection of taxes to provide services and infrastructure required.

The attempts to blockade the capital attributed to Al Qaeda terrorist network of Osama bin Laden, were empty. Indeed, the determination of the United States and Britain of blocking accounts of 27 entities suspected not reached the targets concerned. In Britain, where the freeze hit $ 88 million - with $ 6 million in the U.S. and another $ 6 million in other countries - this figure is a trace compared to U.S. $ 5.9 billion that moved through the bureau de change, since the time of Thatcher freely operating funds of criminal origin.

Following the logic of time zones, there are dozens of so-called "tax havens" that make up the main area of organized crime. A huge - and intense - laundry global, operating in real time and mounted on a technological device that works on the logic of masking and clear, digitally, all tracks - just a simple click and the money "dirty" becomes the "productive capital."

Clearly, tax havens connect and artificial satellites, around the three major financial centers worldwide: United States, European Union and Japan that is, the link with the Cosa Nostra mafia-type American, Italian, Russian, Chinese Triads and Yakuza is direct and immediate. The figures on the amount of resources from organized crime are disagreements, but "the Newsweek magazine estimates that the capital accumulated for each year by all the mafias of the world, is $ 3 trillion. Also in the field of the estimates, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) estimates that the world business of money laundering movement NTA between $ 500 billion and $ 1.5 trillion dollars per year - an amount equal to 5% of production world, more than one quarter of international trade to GDP or the UK.

Of course, this figure includes drug trafficking, other forms of organized crime, political corruption and tax evasion. There are the kinds of nonsense: "Alone, the Jersey Island focused applications with a total value of $ 600 billion.

The World Wide Web (Internet), so-called internal networks of organizations (Intranets) and others like the world is also composed to support the transactions of organized crime. the world's largest network is the washing SWIFT: In 1973, the 250 largest financial institutions in Europe and the United States created a cooperative with the name of Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunications. Or just Swift.

The network covers the whole territory of the United States, Japan and Western Europe, and Latin America, including Brazil. Just order a Swift and a password to leave the money in an area offshore (Bahamas, for example) and between banks in Vienna, Frankfurt and Miami.

The SWIFT network has two features that much like criminal organizations: a) the possibility of multiple operations and in short space of time - facilitating the life of a current interest in clean money, b) the fact that the network is not monitored.

In other words, no and no monitoring system, intelligent, is able to detect suspicious transactions.

The technology worked out nicely for the interests of international organized crime. The Swift does not obey borders. It is the network that traffickers and terrorists move much of his fortune today. It is there that sell the product of political corruption.

In the late 1990s, during the meetings of the UN summit on organized crime, held in Naples (1994), Cairo (1995) and Vienna (March 2003), reports on the laundering of money exchanged by the representatives police from dozens of countries represented point to new strategies for the "purification of dirty money" adopted by the mafias and cartels, worldwide. In the new geopolitics of organized crime, the markets are on shore in new webs of washing international scheme.

The criminal organizations are adjusted to the process of economic globalization, which implies a relatively free flow of capital through systems. In other words, the dimensions and forms of organization of crime in the contemporary world have nothing to do with what existed two or three decades.

In the Middle East, terrorists and criminals still use the system known as Hawala, primitive, which is possible to transfer resources without the need to identify the owner and the destination. The confirmations of transfer are made by fax (the page is destroyed after this OK. Schemes would be well used by bin Laden and the followers of Alspalan Tuerkes, one of the leaders of the Turkish mafia, which controls the trafficking of heroin and weapons in Eastern Europe.

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