Federal Organized Crime Act

The international nature of cybercrime makes its necessary to ensure that legal protection is harmonized among nations and that cybercrime havens do not emerge.

Drawing upon the experiences of family conferences as practised in New Zealand and Australia, there have been proposals for youth development circles that would assist children at risk in a wide variety of areas.

The personal information is acquired as an instrument of crime for future use.

A UNODC regional assessment of organized crime covering West Africa was published.

That makes you pause gives you some pause those of you who believe that a death penalty's going to have an enormous deterrent effect on crime.

(a) United Nations system wide response to organized crime and corruption

And it is this Western desire to consume that is the primary driver of international organized crime.

Hence the densely populated area is considered fertile soil for crime and social unrest.

(2) When the sentence is meted out, the fact that the offence is in the nature of propaganda activities shall be considered an aggravating circumstance.

One P 4 and one P 3, Transnational Crime Advisers

In Brazil, a common saying is that prisons are merely crime schools .

The maximum penalty for an offence under this act is life imprisonment.

The current nature of organized crime requires a global response, through increased international cooperation.

Understanding the evolving nature of organized crime is essential to any discussion of effective measures to combat it.

They become easy prey of organized crime, such as sexual tourism, trafficking and sexual exploitation for commercial purposes.

But governments must also balance the need to tackle cybercrime with the protection of individual rights and liberties.

The Section also participated in various meetings related to global crime and drug trends and the development of drug and crime indices.

In Rio, the people who would be isolated are the denizens of the city's vast and crime infested favelas .

6. We recognize the important role that civil society has to play in the fight against all the various aspects of crime.

5. We are convinced that upholding the rule of law and good governance are critical to the creation of an environment for successfully tackling crime.

Globalization and technologies had brought many benefits to societies, but they also generated new opportunities for crime and criminals.

Some speakers noted that because of the complicated underlying causes of organized crime, it was not sufficient to focus only on combating it.

Noting the transnational nature of organized crime and the tendency of organized criminal groups and terrorist groups to expand their illegal operations,

People without income or security fall prey to crime and violence, and often get trapped in protracted conflict.

Several indictments filed during 2004 included organized crime offences as well as trafficking offences.

One was a week devoted to organized crime, which included trafficking rings (December 2004). The other is a week devoted to trafficking in persons in February 2005.

We are convinced that the rule of law and good governance are prerequisites for creating and sustaining an environment that successfully tackles crime.

Crime represented a serious threat to international security, justice, democracy and development and must be countered with coordinated action on the part of the international community.

Other jurisdictions have attempted to achieve the same goal by expanding the use of community responses to crime (such as family group conferences).

For the crime of inducing someone to satisfy the lasciviousness of another, the third party is also deemed to be a perpetrator of the crime for the purposes of determining the penalty.

Does your country's legislation allow for the appropriate use of special investigative techniques for the purpose of effectively combating organized crime and, in particular, the use of

According to the Chief Minister, the main causes of crime are drug abuse, domestic violence, unemployment and illegal immigration.

Aware of the devastating impact of crime on the national economies of African States and of the fact that crime is a major obstacle to harmonious and sustainable development in Africa,

The person offered for execution did not have to be an original perpetrator of the crime because the system was based on tribes, not individuals.

The Convention against Terrorist Bombings requires the adoption of uniform offence elements, together with provisions permitting international cooperation against the use of explosive and incendiary devices.

Kenya was encouraged by the commitment of the United Nations to tackle transnational crime through the development of relevant instruments, the provision of technical assistance and the exchange of experience.

The failure of police forces to cope with crime, for example, had led to the privatization of security and the proliferation of security companies, a trend which thrived on insecurity and fear.

It was stressed that young democracies, developing countries and countries with economies in transition were especially vulnerable to transnational organized crime.

His delegation also looked forward to the Eleventh United Nations Congress on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice, to be held in 2005, which would develop guidelines for joint efforts to combat crime.

Turkey's preference is for the term good governance , since it offers a broader concept and better suits the creation of an environment to tackle crime.

Whether to prohibit cigarettes altogether is another question, because doing so would no doubt create a new revenue source for organized crime.

5. We are convinced that upholding the rule of law and good governance proper management of public affairs and public property are critical to the creation of an environment for successfully tackling crime.

According to Section 77 of the Penal Law, Courts are authorized to rule upon compensation to victims of crime up to the sum of 228,000 NIS per crime.

Several speakers pointed out the difficulties involved in accurately defining economic and financial crime and the need to do so before considering any new international instrument.