Valeev D.M. United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime of 2000: Theoretical Analysis

Abstract: United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime (Palermo, December 15, 2000) and its three Protocols are the international systematic legal act. It is noted that to the obvious advantages of the conventional mechanism to combat transnational organized crime can be included its comprehensive, integrated approach to the subject of regulation, the presence of concrete regulatory standards, a unique process-protective mechanism of cooperation between law enforcement agencies in the fight against transnational organized crime. In addition to the positive quality coverage of the Convention can be related serious crimes of a transnational nature, committed by an organized criminal group; openness to create new scientific knowledge, the detailed specification of procedure of mutual legal assistance between its participating States on regulated issues, the inclusion of a number of provisions of a fundamental nature for the formation of the international legal framework to combat transnational organized crime. However, analysis of the Convention helps to identify a number of so-called "problem norms" from the point of their theoretical and legal excellence. The article analyzes the ways to address such gaps in the international legal regulation of countering transnational organized crime, to make predictions about the possibility of eliminating the risks involved in law-enforcement.

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