Governing through Globalised Crime

Publication Type

Book Chapter

Publication Date

1-2009

Abstract

This chapter moves beyond the suggestion that crime is a problem for global governance. Instead it advances crime – and terrorism in particular – as instrumental in the promotion of the 'new' globalisation and 'para-justice' control regimes. Along with the argued utility of crime in global governance, the fear of crime and the valorisation of crime victims are identified as vital forces over the crime/governance nexus. With international terrorism justifying a risk/security focus for global governance, criminal justice is both relied upon, and contorted, in the achievement of violent control agendas.

Keywords

Transnational crime, political corruption, global governance, terrorism

Discipline

Criminal Law | International Law | Social Control, Law, Crime, and Deviance

Publication

Government of the Shadows: Para-politics and Criminal Sovereignty

Editor

E. M. Wilson

First Page

73

Last Page

89

ISBN

9780745326245

Publisher

Pluto Press

City or Country

Melbourne

Comments

The production of this volume involved a three-day international conference held in the Law School at University of Melbourne in August 2006

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