The impact of criminal policy on security. Special reference to organised and transnational crime

Abstract

In this article we are going to analyse how organised and transnational crime, which is a flagrant attack on human rights and the breakdown of public order and social peace, forms part of the Sustainable Development Goals and shows that in order to eradicate it, adequate criminal policies are needed, modern and multidisciplinary criminal policies that do not focus their attention solely on the punitive and retributive sphere of criminal law, but that make use of other disciplines such as sociology, respecting the principle of minimum intervention that must characterise criminal law. We have also looked at the interrelationship and impact of this issue on public safety, starting with criminal policy in Spain and specifically in the field of public safety and public order, taking into account issues such as the territorial factor of crime. Finally, we have proposed how to approach criminal policy in organised and transnational crime with special reference to the crime of trafficking in human beings.