Navigating High Seas Jurisdictional Challenges: Recommendations for Addressing Legal Authority of Incidents on Cruise Vessels

This paper examines the current investigation and jurisdiction challenges of cruise crimes on the high seas. The jurisdiction is split into four conditions, including flag state, victim state, suspect state, and coastal state. These conditions face systematic complications and a lack of conductive efficiency that increases the rate of criminals fleeing, bringing challenges from the jurisdiction, social insecurity, and international relations perspectives. This research assesses the current criminal cruise risks on international waters and the upward trend of perpetration reports, including missing individuals, sexual assaults, and murder cases. This article also introduces three alternative policies: sharing incident information and offering technical assistance from the International Criminal Police Organization (INTERPOL) with the jurisdiction countries, providing courses for the crew as well as passengers, and establishing protocols for security and infrastructure in response to the problems. In conclusion, this report recognizes the potential increasing threat of high seas cruise crime and the reasons behind the rising crime number and rate. The policy recommendations concentrate on increasing security for the expansive global cruise market.