United Nations efforts in crime prevention

T he technology of communication and travel links the world. National borders become increasingly porous, people and information crossing them, impeded hardly at all. In this sense, the movement toward one world accelerates week by week. Yet the significance of our growing together in this increasingly crowded world seems to be appreciated only by the large corporations, and certainly not by the diplomats and legislators, blinded by protocol and the scramble for votes, who adhere mindlessly to the awkward national and regional and tribal divisions that threaten all of us and our children. The oil barons, the computer and software vendors, the car manufacturers, and many other businesspersons have seen the promised financial land of a world market, and those engaged in transnational crime and terrorism have not been left far behind. But, as yet, the work of the police and of governmental agencies involved in crime control