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Modern Day Piracy Stalks the Seas
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10561 |
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CURRENT ISSUES
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2 / 1986 |
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Kim Kosko
Kim Kosko director of Communications for New Jersey Sea Grant,
an extension of State University of New Jersey at Rutgers. |
In the wake of the alarming increase in crime on the seas, the nation's first comprehensive conference on the subject was held last September in Atlantic City, New Jersey.
Billed as "Security of the Seas" (S.O.S.) and sponsored by the New Jersey Marine Science consortium, the New Jersey Sea Grant Extension Service, and the Center for Maritime Criminology at Rutgers University, the timing of the conference took on dramatic overtones. The concluding topic of the three-day conference was "Terrorism, Sabotage, and espionage." The following week, the world witnessed one of the decade's most daring acts of piracy: the midocean hijacking of the Italian cruise liner, the Achille Lauro.
In organizing the initial conference, the sponsors created a diversified schedule of topic discussions on ocean-related crimes. Modern day piracy was put into sharp perspective for participants who ranged from law enforcement and criminal justice professionals, law students, military personnel, marine trade and commercial industry representatives, government officials, and the general public.
A roster of national and international experts on the maritime crime problem was invited to speak at the conference. They included Professor G. O. W. Mueller and Freda Adler, a husband-wife team from Rutgers Maritime Criminology Law Center, whose book, Outlaws of the Ocean, was used as a text for the conference. Incidentally, Muller was much in demand during the Achille Lauro crisis, and appeared on virtually every television network as one of the nation's leading maritime crimes experts.
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