The Globalisation of Crime: Understanding the Transitional Relationships of Crime in a Global Context

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...

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Main Author: FINDLAY, Mark
Format: text
Language:English
Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 1999
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Online Access:https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/sol_research/2659
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Institution: Singapore Management University
Language: English
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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.