Globalisation, Criminal Law and Criminal Justice : Theoretical, Comparative and Transnational Perspectives.

Cover -- Half-title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Contributors -- Introduction -- 1. The Concept of Crime and Transnational Networks of Community -- Introduction: Politics, Culture and Crime -- State and Crime: Perspectives from Social Theory -- The Concept of Crime and International Criminal Law -- Locating Ideas of Crime in Networks of Community -- Conclusion: The Relativity of the Concept of Crime -- 2. The Changing Roles of Social Indicators: From Explanation to Governance -- The Challenge of Globalisation to Criminal Justice -- Conclusion -- 3. Illicit Globalisation: Myths and Misconceptions -- Introduction -- Dimensions of Illicit Globalisation -- (Mis)measuring Illicit Globalisation -- The Triumph of the (Illicit) Market and a Borderless World? -- The Technology Factor -- State-promoted Illicit Globalisation -- Violence, 'New Wars' and Illicit Globalisation -- Conclusion -- 4. Prologue: Political Economy and Policing: A Tale of Two Freudian Slips -- What is Political Economy? -- Political Economy and the Development of Criminology -- Studies of Policing: Whatever Happened to the Material Base? -- Conclusion: For Social Democratic Policing -- 5. The Failures of Police Legitimacy: Attacks from Within -- 'External' Organisational Responses: Lies and Denial -- 'Internal' Responses: Kicking and Whining toward Culture Change? -- Conclusion -- 6. Seeing Like a Small State: Globalisation and the Politics of Immigration Detention in the Margins of Europe -- Irregular Migration and Immigration Detention in Contemporary Greece: Some Preliminary Remarks -- Irregular Migration in Contemporary Greece -- Immigration Detention in Contemporary Greece -- What Lies Behind the Veil of Philoxenia? -- 7. The UK and EU Criminal Law: Should we be Leading, Following or Abstaining? -- EU Criminal Law: What is it?.

The Legal Basis for EU Criminal Law Pre-Lisbon -- and the UK's Role, Pre-Lisbon, in Creating EU Criminal Law -- The Legal Basis for EU Criminal Law after Lisbon and the UK's Role in EU Criminal Law since the Treaty came into Force -- What is Wrong with the UK's Current Policy towards EU Criminal Law - and the Policy it should be Following Instead -- 8. The European Union and the Global Governance of Crime -- Introduction -- Governing Crime via Global Multilateral Treaties: The EU and the United Nations -- Governing Crime via Regional Multilateral Treaties: The EU and the Council of Europe -- Governing Crime via 'Soft' Law: The EU and the Financial Action Task Force -- Governing Crime via 'Global Administrative Law': The EU and the UN Security Council -- Conclusion -- 9. The Interplay of Criminal and Administrative Law in the Context of Market Regulation: The Case of Serious Competition Infringements -- Some Big Questions about Criminal Law and Administrative Process -- Definition and Vocabulary: How to Categorise -- Exploring the Provenance: Underlying Legal and Political Cultures -- Working Out the Modalities of the Distinction and Questions of Rights and Justice -- The Province of Administrative Penality Determined: Issues of Bad Attitude and Agency -- Explaining and Understanding Preferences: The Case of Serious Competition Infringements -- Conclusion -- 10. Cartel Enforcement: A Product of Globalisation -- Introduction -- The United States -- The United Kingdom -- The EU Approach to Cartel Enforcement -- Global Criminalisation -- International Cooperation -- Conclusion -- Index.

This volume addresses from a cross-disciplinary perspective the multifarious relationship between globalisation, on the one hand, and criminal law and justice, on the other hand.

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