The Globalisation of Crime: Understanding Transitional Relationships in Context

by Mark Findlay

• ISBN13: 9780521621250
• ISBN10: 0521621259
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1999-02-13
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Summary

On a contracting world stage, crime is a major player in globalization and is as much a feature of the emergent globalized culture as are other forms of consumerism. The Globalization of Crime charts crime's evolution. It analyses how globalization has enhanced material crime relationships such that they must be understood on the same terms as any other significant market force. Trends in criminalization, crime and social development, crime and social control, the political economy of crime, and crime in transitional cultures are all examined in order to understand the role of crime as an agent of social change and present an integrated theory of crime and social context. This is the first book to challenge existing analyses of crime in the context of global transition, and show that crime is as much a force for globalization as globalization is a force for crime.

Table of Contents

Preface	vii
Acknowledgements	x
Introduction: Notions of context and globalisation	1	(19)
(Mis)representing crime	20	(38)
Crime and social development	58	(36)
Crime and social dysfunction	94	(21)
Marginalisation and crime relationships	115	(23)
Crime economies	138	(29)
Crime as choice	167	(19)
Integrating crime control	186	(35)
Epilogue	221	(5)
Bibliography	226	(10)
Index	236