International crimes and criminal organizations' global and regional effects: Criminal organizations as an internatinol actor

Crime and criminalism fact is coeval with the history of mankind. Although organized crime and related fields have an old history, the effects of organised crime have been perceived especially in the twentieth century. Assessment of criminal organizations' impact to international affairs and an analysis of the place of criminal organizations within the international relations gained importance in recent years. Criminal organizations took place in the threat perceptions in the last quarter of the twentieth century. International criminal organizations and their field of activities benefit from the technological, social and cultural changes as well as from global development. International criminal organizations play main character as seen in the recent thesis like ?Incoming Anarchy?. In the future, criminal organizations may perform different dimension roles in the international area.