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4 Trends Org. Crime 1 (1998-1999)

handle is hein.journals/trndorgc4 and id is 1 raw text is: OVERVIEW The government of the United States is the first to develop and publish a strategy to control the challenge of transnational crime. The purpose of the Strategy is to provide a framework for integrating all facets of the federal government's response to international crime. According to the Administra- tion, it is also an important initiative in terms of enhancing the ability of U.S. officials to cooperate effectively with their overseas counterparts in investi- gating and prosecuting international crime. This special issue of Trends in Organized Crime is devoted to the President's International Crime Control Strategy of the United States, released on May 14, 1998. We begin with excerpts that provide an overview of the major components of the Strategy. This is followed by presentations and discussion of diverse views on the Strategy at a meeting of the Working Group on Organized Crime, organized by the National Strategy Information Center in June 1998. The Strategy identifies eight broad goals, thirty implementing objectives, as weli as programs designated to achieve them. The goals encompass what the Administration perceives as the most serious threats. These include coun- tering international financial crime, denying safe-haven to international crimi- nals, protecting U.S. borders, and fostering international cooperation and the rule of law. However, as the President notes in his Transmittal Letter, The Strategy's goals and objectives are dynamic. They will evolve over time as conditions change, new trends emerge, and improved anti-crime techniques are developed. The Strategy contains a short assessment of contemporary criminal threats, but notes that a more comprehensive contemporary threat assessment, the product of a cooperative effort among all U.S. law enforcement, diplomatic, and intelligence agencies, is due to be completed by the end of the year. Other highlights of planned activities include action to focus attention on the development of a model approach for upholding integrity among key jus- tice and security officials. The Vice President is tasked to organize an interna- tional conference on this subject by early 1999. The Strategy also calls for aggressive new tools to fight financial crimes; a program to work with the OAS against illicit trafficking in firearms; new arrangements with the United States' international partners to establish and broaden asset forfeiture sharing agreements; and a plan to engage the private sector in assessing the impact of international crime on that sector and in determining its appropriate role in countering this threat. The closing section of the Strategy proposes the development of Mea- sures of Effectiveness. By tracking progress on the goals and objectives set forth in the Strategy, the Administration seeks to enhance the most effective INTERNATIONAL CRIME CONTROL STRATRGY INTERNATIONAL CRIME CONTROL STRATRGY 1

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