Sınıraşan/Organize Suçlar Bağlamında Avrupa Birliği(European Union In The Context Of Transnational/Organized Crimes)

Abstract

The main purpose of this study is to analyze the changes in the Severe and Organized Crime Assessments that guide the Union on these illegal activities by examining the phenomenon of organized crime that has many economic and political negative consequences within the borders of the European Union. As a method, first of all, the study has drawn the conceptual framework of organized crime phenomenon by examining the related literature, and then evaluated the changes of organized crime tendencies within the Union by comparing the evaluations of 2014-2017 and 2018-2021 prepared by Europol. One of the most striking results obtained from these comparisons is while the environmental crimes, criminal finance and money laundering issues have been laid into background in the assessment period between 2014 and 2017, after the terrorist attacks in Brussels and Paris, particularly the criminal finance or financial supports to terrorist activities issues have been brought to the fore the assessment period for 2018-2021 by Europol. This study, with its versatile character, both evaluated the phenomenon of organized crime and analyzed two consecutive periods in the context of organized crime, which were not compared before.

Keywords

• organized crime
• europol
• socta
• european union