Comparative Organized Crime Between EU & China

Since recent years, the world has been confronted with a comparativelynew type of crime, namely Organized Crime, which seriously threatens thesecurity of the development and advancement worldwide. Inextricablyembedded in political systems, economies, civil societies and cultures,organized crime groups are a powerful and expansive phenomena fueled bybusinesses from the international drug trade to human trafficking andprotected by their violent and extortionate methods. Research and studyon such issue are inevitable hereby.The main purpose of this paper is to examine the status quo and strategyon organized crime in the EU and China, and ulteriorly to suggest andrecommend the utilization of the former's experiences, within the scopeof legislation and policy, to the latter. In addition, several viewpointson issues of organized crime are remarked on within the study. The paperis composed of four chapters.First of all, in the first chapter, the definition of the organized crime,which probably is the most absorbing issue in such study around the world,will be introduced both on the EU level, the Member States level and China's. Several relevant conceptions, such as the criminal organization, are compared and differentiated later on.After that, in the Chapter 2, an overview is given on the range of the status quo and strategies on the EU level and the Member States level, general findings and comment of the abovementioned will be presented thereby. With regard to the status quo in EU, sorted by the types of crime, I mainly approach to the annual report of Europol on organized crime from 2000 to 2005, and as for the tactics adopted by the EU and Member States, I' d like to divide it into three sections, namely the legislation, the institution and the initiatives policy.In succession, the situation in China dealing with the status and the tactics, including legislation and criminal policy, are introduced and remarked in the Chapter 3. Several insufficient points are also indicated.The last chapter focuses on the similarity of the causation of the organized crime between EU and China, and ulteriorly to conclude that the typical organized crime will come into being in our country. Suggestions on the amendment of the legislation and criminal policy in China are presented in the end.