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is the increasing ease of international communications brings the world to each individual more directly and potentially more dangerously than ever before.

means conforming to the requirements of the law: not forbidden by law.

allows the individual to access information, do business with and communicate instantly with persons in every nation.

are benefits obtained in an evil manner or by dishonest means.

is extreme agitation or disorder : radical change.

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What has been the most serious unintended consequences of the globalization that we have been experiencing for the last few years?

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Population explosion has been the most serious unintended consequences of the globalization that we have been experiencing for the last few years.

The rapid rise of transnational organized crime groups has been the most serious unintended consequences of the globalization that we have been experiencing for the last few years.

Internet expansion has been the most serious unintended consequences of the globalization that we have been experiencing for the last few years.

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What allows criminals to perpetrate confidence schemes and stock market manipulations, run illegal gambling operations and peddle child pornography across the globe?

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The internet allows criminals to perpetrate confidence schemes and stock market manipulations, run illegal gambling operations and peddle child pornography across the globe.

International conspiracy allows criminals to perpetrate confidence schemes and stock market manipulations, run illegal gambling operations and peddle child pornography across the globe.

Secret government allows criminals to perpetrate confidence schemes and stock market manipulations, run illegal gambling operations and peddle child pornography across the globe.

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What is an example of a traditional crime that has been revolutionized by global communications?

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Fraud is an example of a traditional crime that has been revolutionized by global communications.

Child pornography is an example of a traditional crime that has been revolutionized by global communications.

Kidnaping is an example of a traditional crime that has been revolutionized by global communications.

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What provides vital benefits to the world’s economies, but at the same time presents ample opportunity for fraud and theft and allows international money launderers to easily hide their ill-gotten gains?

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The fall of Communism in the Soviet Union and Eastern provides vital benefits to the world’s economies, but at the same time presents ample opportunity for fraud and theft and allows international money launderers to easily hide their ill-gotten gains.

Globalization provides vital benefits to the world’s economies, but at the same time presents ample opportunity for fraud and theft and allows international money launderers to easily hide their ill-gotten gains.

The growth of international commerce and the staggering number of international banking transactions performed every day by major banks provide vital benefits to the world’s economies, but they also present ample opportunity for fraud and theft and allow international money launderers to easily hide their ill-gotten gains.

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What has the fall of Communism in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe brought?

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The fall of Communism in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe has brought freedom and democracy to millions, but has also resulted in massive economic upheavals in those countries and an often-violent free-for-all among businessmen for the rich natural resources of those regions.

The fall of Communism in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe has brought opportunities for organized crime.

The fall of Communism in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe has brought the sort of regulation vacuum in which transnational organized crime can thrive.

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The internet allows the individual to access information, do business with and communicate instantly with persons in every nation, but at the same time it allows criminals to… .

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attract new members in social networks.

send letters with threats to their victims. 

perpetrate confidence schemes and stock market manipulations, run illegal gambling operations and peddle child pornography across the globe. 

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Human and commercial flows are too intense to easily distinguish... .

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unintended consequences from intended consequences. 

the licit from the illicit.

stock market manipulations.

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The open seas, which constitute three quarters of the earth’s surface, remain essentially... .

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ungoverned. 

free.

cheap.

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These changes have not only spawned new criminal enterprises within the area of former Soviet domination, but have led directly to… .

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corruption.

globalization.

 money laundering and other crimes in the rest of the world as well.

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The growth of international commerce and the staggering number of international banking transactions performed every day by major banks also present ample opportunity for fraud and theft and allow international money launderers… .

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to print counterfeit money.

to easily hide their ill-gotten gains.

to open offshore companies.

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