Mechanisms and instruments for international cooperation of public security and defense in the fight against transnational organized crime: integrative revision

Transnational organized crime (TOC) as a phenomenon evolves every day, causing fear to the population of any country, causing irreparable damage to society, not only in terms of monetary values and perceptions of insecurity, but also in violation of the right to life. In this context, transnational criminal organizations specialize and branch out into various criminal modalities, with the possibility of interconnections, always in the illicit search for resources to obtain profits for self-financing to perpetuate power parallel to the state. In this context, countries seek to establish policies to combat these criminal actions, but with timid results when compared to the transnational dimension of crime. These fights against COT take place through the mechanisms and instruments of international cooperation in the areas of public security and defense. Therefore, this integrative review sought to identify and select bibliographic productions dealing with mechanisms and instruments of international cooperation, through qualitative analysis obtained from the SCIELO, MICROSOFT ACADEMIC, BDTD and CAPES journals. Thirty-two bibliographic productions that meet the inclusion criteria established by this integrative review were selected, all of which were submitted to analysis and interpretation. In the end, it was verified in the referred bibliographical productions that the low international cooperation in the scope of public security and defense, using the current mechanisms and instruments, results in obstacles in their implementation, thus causing inexpressive results in the confrontation with COT.