The mechanism of international cooperation accordingly to UN Convention against Transnational Organized Crime

Abstract

The article considers the mechanisms for fighting transnational crime and international cooperation in accordance with the United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime and identifies the main factors that complicate international cooperation processes to combat transnational crime. The authors emphasize that international cooperation in the fight against crime is key to the success and guarantee of international security. The main objectives of the article are to carry out a comprehensive analysis of the concept of "organized crime" in accordance with the United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime, to determine the corpus delicti, as well as to improve International Law to combat transnational crime. In the article the following methods are used: induction, deduction, analogy, as well as historical, dialectical, formal-legal methods. The article provides us with the complex results related to the key mechanisms of international cooperation according to the United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime.

Criminal community as a manifestation of organised crime: A comparative legal analysis

“…However, some members of criminal communities continue to promote criminal traditions and customs that have been developed over the years since the Soviet era. S. Romashkin et al (2020) point out that modern representatives of transnational crime, including those in the status of "thief in law", are trying to succeed in politics and governance. In the course of the struggle for the right to control profitable sectors of the economy and territory, the criminal environment is organised, and the state apparatus is involved in its activities.…”