| Problem | Components |
|---|---|
| Policy issue area: | World |
| Policy issue: | Society |
| Description: | Organized crime (a structured, profit-making enterprise engaged primarily in criminal activities) is now spreading and cooperating worldwide. |
| Symptoms: | Growing international black market in drugs, nuclear fissile materials and conventional armaments; money laundering is estimated at $500 billion a year; sophisticated computer technologies are used increasingly for criminal activities; financial crimes threaten the world's financial infrastructure; thousands of criminal gangs in Russia dominate much of the political, economic and social environments of the former Soviet republics. |
| Causes: | Growing social problems and conflicts; declining moral values; corrupt politicians and law enforcement organizations; increased opportunities through technological advances. |
| Cost of problem: | - |
| Solution | Components |
| Resources: | National and local governments and law enforcement institutions; international organizations; business and financial organizations; research institutes. |
| Goal: | Gradually reduce, and eventually abolish organized criminal activity worldwide. |
| Program area: | World social and economic development. |
| Program-remedy: | 1. Strengthen law enforcement institutions of nation-states 2. Establish international criminal law 3. Set up and implement an international criminal justice system 4. Develop and institute an international police force with worldwide jurisdiction. |
| Program-prevent: | Economic, political and social development under a coordinated strategy of the World Authority. |
| Cost of program: | - |
| Beneficiaries: | Populations and business communities of the countries affected. |