Penal Issues (2006->) janvier 2003

THE CUSTOMS DEPARTMENT AS ACTOR ON THE CRIMINAL JUSTICE SCENE

par Anne KLETZLEN,

Anne KLETZLEN is associate researcher at the CESDIP and teaching assistant in transportation law at the University of Versailles-Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines. She has done research on the development of the highway code as well as on money-laundering. The study presented here, concerned with the role of customs in controlling economic crime, was a cooperative IHÉSI/CESDIP venture.

The control of transnational economic and financial crime (TEFC) belongs to two distinctly different registers : the judicial and customs. It involves actors who differ not only in their modes of action but even in their conceptions, and who have a history of working separately. The recent tendency to make the customs department a fully-fledged actor on the criminal justice scene is indicative of the gradual interpenetration of customs and criminal police conceptions, producing tension between the two institutions.

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PI 01/2003