Part A Introduction, 2 What Is Transnational Criminal Law?

Transnational crime is now a commonly used criminological term to describe cross-border or potentially cross-border crime. Transnational law was originally defined by Phillip Jessup to include ‘all law which regulates actions or events that transcend national frontiers’.1 Transnational criminal law is the law that suppresses crime that transcends national frontiers; it can be defined as ‘the indirect suppression by international law through domestic penal law of criminal activities that have actual or potential trans-boundary effects’.2 Neither international...