2. International criminal law is a
relatively new body of law.
International criminal law is a subset of public
international law. While international law typically
concerns inter-state relations, international
criminal law concerns individuals. In particular,
international criminal law places responsibility on
individual persons—not states or
organisations—and proscribes and punishes acts
that are defined as crimes by international law.
3. international criminal law, body of laws, norms, and rules
governing international crimes and their repression, as well as
rules addressing conflict and cooperation between national
criminal-law systems.
international law-conflict of laws.
Criminal law prohibits and punishes behaviour judged to be
antisocial. Because each country’s laws are a reflection of its
values, there are often large differences between the national
laws of different countries, both with respect to the nature of the
crimes themselves and the penalties considered appropriate. The
term international criminal law refers variously to at least three
distinct areas: 1. cooperation between different national legal
systems through extradition and other forms of mutual legal
assistance; 2. the prohibition and punishment of certain
behaviour by several countries acting collectively or by the
international community as a whole; 3. the operation of
autonomous international legal systems, including courts and
other mechanisms of enforcement, that exist alongside national
criminal law.
5. Money laundaring
The elements of the crime of
money laundering are set forth in
the United Nations Convention
Against Illicit Traffic in Narcotic
Drugs and Convention against
Transnational Organized Crime. It
is knowingly engaging in a financial
transaction with the proceeds of a
crime for the purpose of concealing
or disguising the illicit origin of the
property.
6. DRUG
TRAFFICKING
Addictive drugs were first
prohibited in the late 19th and
early 20th centuries. An Illegal
Drug Trade emerged during
the 19th century; China
retaliated with imports of
opium, and two Opium Wars
broke out. In the First Opium
Wars, the Chinese authorities
had banned opium, but the
United Kingdom forced China
to allow British merchants to
trade opium with the general
population. Smoking opium
had become common in the
19th century, and British
merchants increased their
trade with the Chinese.
7. Published on Feb 11, 2013 Despite
Mexico's Fifty thousand people have been
killed in the past five years due to drug and
organized crime-related violence.
10. Hijacking
Hijacking is a type of
network security attack in
which the attacker takes
control of a communication
- just as an airplane hijacker
takes control of a flight -
between two entities and
masquerades as one of
them. In one type of
hijacking the perpetrator
takes control of an
established connection
while it is in progress.
11. Counterfeiting
The Facts:
Counterfeiting costs U.S. businesses
$200 billion to $250 billion annually.
Counterfeit merchandise is directly
responsible for the loss of more than
750,000 American jobs.
Since 1982, the global trade in
illegitimate goods has increased from
$5.5 billion to approximately $600
billion annually.
Approximately 5%-7% of the world
trade is in counterfeit goods.
U.S. companies suffer $9 billion in
trade losses due to international
copyright piracy.
Counterfeiting poses a threat to global
health and safety.
counterfeiters are hardened
criminals, exploiting consumers,
businesses both large and small,
inventors and artists and children
laboring in sweatshops in Third
World countries.