A Research on Foreign Passengers engaging in Class A Drug Smuggling at International Airports in Taiwan / 機場外籍旅客跨國運輸一級毒品之研究

碩士 / 國立臺北大學 / 犯罪學研究所 / 99 / The research, through careful analysis in drug smuggling cases cracked in recent 10 years, aims to understand the modus operandi of transnational drug-smuggling criminal gang by means of aircraft transit. Meanwhile, it also recognizes the attributes of the high-risk population for drug-combating authorities’ reference by analyzing common features of arrested foreign travelers, the interests of crime, criminal conducts and the differences of criminal investigation and judgment amongst cases.
The methodology adapted in this dissertation is content analysis. From the database of Directorate General of Customs, Ministry of Finance, a list of 752 persons arrested for drug smuggling in the international airports and harbors is collected and filtered for analysis. In the list, Taiwanese nationals and foreign nationals are separated. After that, this research makes use of two databases, crime data system built by Criminal Investigation Bureau, National Police Agency, Ministry of Interior, and Law and Regulations Retrieving System constructed by the Judicial Yuan of the Republic of China, to obtain the verdicts and indictments and find 81 foreign subjects who were arrested for first degree drug smuggling. The next step is to code the above-mentioned data, including traveling records, and to run these variants with SPSS12.0 and Excel. The variants in this research are common features of arrested foreign travelers, the interests of crime, criminal conducts and the differences of criminal investigation and judgment amongst cases.
The research finds out the common features of high-risk people as follows: male, aged 20 to 50, Malaysia or Singapore nationals, staying within 3 days in Taiwan, drug collected in Thailand, departure from other countries, the previous stop is Thailand or Malaysia. As for the association between criminal conducts and the interests of crime, the weights and concentration of drugs is negatively associated with the interests of crime. As for the association among the common features of the arrested, criminal conducts and the judicial decisions, the sentence is not statistically associated with gender, age, nationality, confessions during investigation, interests of crime, weights, purity and the way of shipping of drugs.
In combination of this research and the present policies and strategies against narcotics in this country, five suggestions/recommendations are provided as follows:
1. Academic studies should be emerged to enhance the effect and efficiency in drug-combating law enforcement.
2. Make use of crime data analyst in investigation to assist the shortcomings in typical surveillance methods.
3. Implement the “to intercept the drug from other countries at the entrance of national border” policy for combating transnational drug-smuggling crime.
4. Legislate the bill of “ narcotics smuggling chapter ”in the law to differ from the domestic transferring narcotics bills.
5. Actively enhance the international cooperation or operation for strengthening the global power against drugs.
6. To crack down the drug crime syndicates by means of control-delivery.

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:TW/099NTPU0102043
Date January 2011
CreatorsHsiao, Jui-Hao, 蕭瑞豪
ContributorsHOU,CHUNG-WEN, 侯崇文
Source SetsNational Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations in Taiwan
Languagezh-TW
Detected LanguageEnglish
Type學位論文 ; thesis
Format134

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