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From Empire to Europe: Evolving British Policy in Respect of Cross-Border Crime
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From Empire to Europe: Evolving British Policy in Respect of Cross-Border Crime

Clive Harfield
Journal of Policy History, Vol.19(2), pp.180-206
2007
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https://doi.org/10.1353/jph.2007.0011View
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Abstract

The second half of the twentieth century witnessed the metamorphosis of Britain from a global, imperial power to a full (if sometimes ambivalent) member of the modern regional partnership that is the European Union (EU). During the same period, transnational criminal activity was transformed from an arena in which criminal fugitives sought merely to evade domestic justice through self-imposed exile to an environment in which improved travel and communication facilities enabled criminals to commute between national jurisdictions to commit crime or to participate in global criminal enterprises run along modern business lines. This development is so serious that it is considered in some quarters a threat to national security and the very fabric of society.

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