International criminal law:Organized Crime and Narcotics in the United States
1. Major Treaties and Documents
- United Nations Convention Against Illicit Traffic in Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances, 1988.
- United Nations Draft Convention against Transnational Organized Crime.
- Council of Europe, Convention on laundering, search, seizure and confiscation of the proceeds from crime of 8 November 1990, ETS No. 141.
- Council of Europe, Criminal law convention on corruption of 27 January 1999, ETS no.173.
- Inter-American convention against corruption (Adopted at the third plenary session, held on March 29, 1996).
- United Nations Crime and Justice Information Network is an electronic access to some of the documents it has compiled regarding drug laws and bilateral treaties; also consult UN indexes such as AccessUN and the Official Documents Search (S) system (both by subscription only).
2. Research Sites
- Transnational Crime and Corruption Center (TraCCC)
TraCCC is a non-profit institute dedicated to the research of trends in organized crime and corruption and includes organized crime links to information on arms, corruption, cybercrime, drugs, environmental crime, moneylaundering, terrorism, and white collar crime. - International Centre for Criminal Law Reform and Criminal Justice Policy (ICCLRCJP)
The Centre monitors activities concerning economic and organized crime. - United Nations International Drug Control Programme (UNDCP)
This is the “agency responsible for coordinating activities relating to international control of narcotic drugs.” The web site lists drug-related resolutions and decisions and includes a summary of the World Drug Report. - Drugtext Legal Pages
Serves as a springboard to UN drug control bodies, treaties on drugs, European Union documents, international reports, articles & papers, legislation & legal proposals, and jurisprudence. - International Money Laundering Information Network (IMoLIN)
IMoLIN was developed under the auspices of the United Nations Office for Drug Control and Crime Prevention to assist governments, organizations and individuals in the fight against money laundering. - The Money Laundering Compliance Website
This site was “created for the purpose of increasing the available knowledge about money laundering and includes a listing of conferences and seminars, articles, and links to sites dealing with financial crimes.
3. Major Treatises
- Bassiouni, M. Cherif, and Eduardo Vetere, eds. and compilers, with the cooperation of Dimitri Vlassis. Organized crime: a compilation of U.N. documents 1975-1998. Ardsley, N.Y.: Transnational Publishers, 1998.
- Punch, Maurice, ed. Coping with corruption in a borderless world : proceedings of the fifth International Anti-Corruption Conference. Deventer; Boston: Kluwer Law and Taxation Publishers; Arnhem: Gouda Quint, 1993.
- The OECD Convention on Bribery, by Geoffrey R. Watson. March 1998.