Drug Trafficking
Definition
The illicit movement of narcotics along a production, transit and consumption chain, with each segment typically controlled by different actors.
Related terms
- Extradition
- The formal surrender of a person located in one state to face prosecution or serve a sentence in another, governed by treaty...
- Human Trafficking
- The recruitment, transportation, harbouring, or receipt of persons by force, fraud, or coercion for the purpose of exploitation. Defined in the UN...
- Migrant Smuggling
- The procurement, for financial or material gain, of the illegal entry of a person into a state of which that person is...
- Mutual Legal Assistance
- A formal treaty-based process by which one state's authorities request another state's help gathering evidence, serving documents or freezing assets for a...
- Palermo Protocol
- The common name for the Protocol to Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking in Persons, Especially Women and Children, one of UNTOC's three...
- Transnational Organised Crime
- Criminal enterprises that operate across national borders, coordinating production, transit, and distribution of illegal goods or services in multiple jurisdictions simultaneously. Trafficking...
- UNTOC
- The United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime, adopted by the UN General Assembly in November 2000 and opened for signature at...