International Crime and Australia

When travel, trade and communication between countries becomes uncomplicated, international crime raises. Governments can only pass laws that control behaviour within their jurisdiction. For example, the government of New South Wales can only make laws that apply within the state. An Australian who commits a crime in another country go by the laws of that country and not Australia's laws. If a person was caught smuggling drugs into Indonesia, they would most likely face the …

…tax fraud, for example. Other types of punishment include fines, probation orders, community service orders, home detention and imprisonment. Each year it gets difficult to recognise every crime because of the simplicity in interactions between nations. International laws have been created to stop crime and to get humans doing things that are not harmful to themselves and others. All nations intend on fixing problems that they come across by creating laws and warning the public.