Chapter 1 The Changing Boundaries of Criminology ESSAY QUESTIONS 1. Explain the seven forms of transnational criminality that are in the wheel of terrorism, and explain their relationship to terrorism. First we have illicit drug trafficking where we find a great deal of terrorist activities involved because it gives them an easy access to large funds of money. Money laundering is also a part of transnational criminality where we get drug money transformed into clean money. Infiltration of legal business…
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Introduction There has been numerous studies and reviews that define the challenges surrounding local communities (cities and countries alike). The Department of Homeland Security has five mission areas that causes a lot of attention; prevention of terrorism and enhancing security, security and management of our borders, enforcing and administering our immigration laws, safeguarding and securing cyberspace, and ensuring resilience to disasters. These mission areas are the guiding factors that define…
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In truth, the most energy-efficient motorized land transportation system known to man is the operation of trains on a railroad. While trains are less significant today than in the past, they still haul more ton-miles of freight than trucks do and hold great potential for the future. A train consists of a series of railroad cars with steel wheels running along the steel rails of a railroad track. The power to move a train usually comes from one or more locomotives at the head of the train pulling…
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International Terrorism * from the International Model United Nations Association Manual (http://www.imuna.org/c2c/index.html) Legal Committee History The Legal Committee is the Sixth Committee of the United Nations General Assembly. It was established in 1945 along with the other original UN organs. This committee is dedicated to discussing legal issues and studying draft reports from various specialized and adhoc agencies, and then codifying it all into international law. The Legal Committee then…
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In order to understand the transformation of terrorism and in order to come up with somewhat of a remedy to this word wide complication, we must first understand its meaning and its origin. Depending on whom you speak with and the lens through which you view the issue, terrorism has several definitions. It has been widely discussed that the core elements to terrorism are violence, noncombatant targets, intention of spreading fear, and political aims (LIBAW 2011). But formulating a global definition…
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the [established] nations [= nation-states] both upward to new transnational regimes that are arising and downward to the nations whence they came, the true [‘old’] nations, united by blood and soil, language, literature, history, faith, tradition and memory” (Buchanan, 2006) The death of the nation-state? 2 • If there is a death of the nationstate, it is occurring simultaneously in two directions • Upwards – Towards transnational entities, which might be…
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involved in around 56 separate incidents involving (WMD) and in which 36 of those has come to light since September 2001 (Mowatt-Larssen, 2010). Terrorism remains among the many security risks faced by nations worldwide and by countries like Pakistan, Iraq and Afghanistan more than others due to the presence of terror elements tied to the global effort of terrorism driven by radicalized Islam. One of the scenarios that worry and scare nations is the ability of terror groups to get their hands on WMDs being…
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all of the changes that have taken place within the country. These events have brought the topic of foreign terrorism into the spotlight, and they have shadowed the real threat about which many should worry. Due to an increase in the Islamic radicalization of Americans, disturbed mass shooters and anarchists, and hate groups full of extremists scattered across America, domestic terrorism still poses a large threat to America and the Western way of life. Many of the foiled plans and terror attacks…
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Lecture 1 Terror and Insurgency - A Brief History Subhead 1 Definitional Ambiguities According to the Shorter Oxford Dictionary the term ‘terror’ represents a state of extreme fear, whilst ‘terrorism’ refers to a system of government by intimidation. Significantly, the political character of terrorism and its proponents or ‘terrorists’ dates from the French Revolution and the period of revolutionary terror applied by the Jacobin between March 1793- July 1794. In other words, its political…
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it is still significant to point out the tidbits that make these relations worth mentioning. Since the advents of 9-11, U.S-Brazil relations took a turn where both countries went their own route in handling the onset of George W. Bush’s war on terrorism. U.S went unilaterally into the Middle East, while Brazil did not support U.S policy actions being taken. Brazil attempted to establish balanced positioning in dealing with conflicts in the Middle East their own way such as the initiative of the…
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