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35 B.U. Int'l L.J. 337 (2017)
How Law Enforcement Cooperation Abroad Is Pivotal to Sustainable Development at Home

handle is hein.journals/builj35 and id is 351 raw text is: HOW LAW ENFORCEMENT COOPERATION ABROAD IS PIVOTAL TO SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT AT HOME David A. Sadoff* I. INTRODUCTION ......................................... ...... 338 II. TRANSNATIONAL CRIME: ITS ASCENDANCY, OPERATION, AND SIGNIFICANCE ....................................... ..... 338 a. What is a transnational crime? ................ ..... 339 b. What are the types of transnational crimes?......... .........341 c. What has precipitated the rise of transnational crime? ............... 342 d. How do transnational criminals operate? ........... ..... 344 e. What is the significance of transnational crime to this inquiry?....................... ............... 345 IRl. SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT AND THE THREAT POSED BY TRANSNATIONAL CRIMES ..................................348 a. What is sustainable development? ............... ..... 348 b. How does transnational crime undercut sustainable development?.................................350 IV. How GOVERNMENTS COMBAT TRANSNATIONAL CRIME AND THE VITAL ROLE OF CROSS-BORDER LAW ENFORCEMENT COOPERATION....... .....354 a. What are the types of domestic law enforcement agencies?.......354 b. In what ways do enforcement agencies combat transnational crime?. ...................................... 355 c. Why is cross-border law enforcement cooperation so important? ........................ ..... ...... 357 d. What forms does cross-border law enforcement cooperation take?....................................... 360 * Dr. Sadoff is the Executive Director of the Center for Ethics and the Rule of Law (CERL) at the University of Pennsylvania Law School, a non-resident Senior Fellow with both the Centre for International Sustainable Development Law (CISDL) and the Enough Project, and the author of BRINGING INTERNATIONAL FUGITIVES TO JUSTICE: EXTRADITION AND ITS ALTERNATIVES (Cambridge Univ. Press 2016). The views expressed in this article are the author's alone and do not purport to reflect those of any of the organizations with which he is affiliated. 337