The Organisational Framework of European Crime in the Globalisation Process

"Governmental authority and civil society are increasingly threatened by transnational networks of crime, narcotics, money laundering and terrorism. Access by underworld groups to sophisticated information technologies and weaponry as well as to the various instrumentalities through which the global market economy functions is vastly increasing the potential power and influence of these groups, posing a threat to law and order and to legitimate economic and political institutions. To both industrialised and developing countries, this is an issue of growing concern in which international co-operation is essential"