Governing Through Globalised Crime: Futures for International Criminal Justice

• NCJ Number: 223705
• Author(s): Mark Findlay
• Date Published: 2008
• Length: 300 pages
• Sale Source: Willan Publishing
• Publication Format: Book (Softbound)
• Publication Type: Legislation/Policy Analysis
• Language: English
• Country: United Kingdom

Annotation

This book proposes a way forward for the governance capacity of international criminal justice (ICJ), as it argues that values of freedom, equality, communitarian harmony, and personal integrity, which the prosecution of crimes against humanity are said to advance, need not be sacrificed in a new world order obsessed with advancing the authority and interests of one world order against the sometimes legitimate resistance of criminalized communities.

Abstract

The first chapter examines key features of “new globalization” and its explanation. The intention is to clarify how these features construct the risk/security foundations for global governance. The risk/security theme in this chapter and throughout the book refers to the efforts of nations individually and collectively to focus on reducing risks to attacks on its citizens and institutions by increasing defenses and mounting strategic attacks against perceived international and domestic enemies. In chapter 2, crime prioritizing ruled by global governance concerns is critically analyzed so as to appreciate the creation of risk/security control agendas. In chapter 3, case studies of global terrorism and organized crime reveal how both citizen and resistant cultures, interfacing with dominant political/security alliances, show the importance of violence for contemporary global governance. Chapter 4 discusses how the problematic place of violence in the risk/security nexus undermines humanitarian priorities in the methods of global regulation. By meeting terrorism with violence, the legitimacy of global governance is at risk. The remaining four chapters develop the rationale for and features of a reinvigorated “separation-of-powers” model wherein criminal justice accountability is the mirror against which the other major arms of global governance may be measured. This will invigorate ICJ to better protect a global community representative of a wider pluralistic humanity. Chapter notes, a 452-item bibliography, and a subject index