CRIMINAL JUSTICE PAPER

CRIMINAL JUSTICE PAPER



CRIMINAL JUSTICE PAPER

The human rights era and liberalization was supported by the expansion of the European Union (EU) and regional alliances, such as ASEAN, where sustainable development, human rights, indigenous rights and ecology became the major factors in modern international relations; instead of warfare and the threat of deploying arms attacks. Yet the problem with this is that this weakening of security and opening of borders with Eastern Europe is playing a major role in the increase of organized crime within the EU.

There is the problem that this idealistic view liberalist civil society and human rights protection may be high fluting ideals that are puts the security of the EU at risk. . The increase of organized crime in the EU and internationally has grown from non-Islamic groups because of the focus on combating Islamic terrorism. Hence the global civil society of liberalism is not necessarily a correct interpretation of state interaction and the role of hegemony. However it has also been shown that realism is not necessarily the best model, therefore this discussion would like to introduce a third possible model of international relations which is a holistic model based on Teubner'smodel of reflexive law. This model is based upon the core belief that politics, law and economics cannot be determined as separate entities, just as nation states cannot be separated from the International arena. This is because each element has an important part to play internationally, they cannot be separated but have to be balanced against each other. Hence this model also allows one to explain the role of MNCs, NGOs and the growth of organized crime in the international arena; as well as providing a better solution and explanation for the importance of internal/external security forces that combat transnational crime. Therefore to fully comprehend international relations one must balance each of the influences and players in order to provide a sufficient model to explain conflicts and the response by the International community and states in conflicts in order to maintain security.

In addition the focus in the world is up in air due to the confusion in respect to the explanation of international relations in the 21st Century. This can be seen in the war in Afghanistan and the US and British attack on Iraq post September 11th 2001. This has seen EU nations focusing on immigration and asylum programmes, as well as freezing and investigating bank accounts of those persons that have originated from Islamic countries. The problem is that this Islamophoba has weakened the EU's effectiveness in fighting other security and criminal organizations from non-Islamic countries of which China satisfies. The following section will consider the attempts of the EU to fight organized crime, because the escalation of organized crime is greatly de-stabilizing the region.

EU Attempts to Fight Organized Crime:

Ever since enlargement there have been a greater amount of problems combating organized crime, because of decreased security, corruption of public officials in favor of organized crime groups in the newly acceded nations ...