NCJ Number
226133
Editor(s)
James Sheptycki,
Ali Wardak
Date Published
2006
Length
388 pages
Annotation
This book contains contributions from academic criminologists examining the issues of crime and its control in the 21st century and in a global and transnational context.
Abstract
Four themes have been used to organize the presentation of chapters in this volume: comparative criminology, area studies, transnational crimes, and transnational control responses. Within the first theme, key issues of cultural relativism, sources of cross-national crime data, and cross-national comparison of crime statistics are examined. The second theme focuses on an examination of crime and social control issues in selected regions, or countries as well as crime and social control in Saudi Arabia, Singapore, China, post-apartheid South Africa, and West Africa. The third theme focuses on the analyses of major transnational crime issues, and analyzes organized crime, corruption, trafficking in humans, and white-collar crime in a global context. The final theme provides a critical examination of transnational and global responses to transnational crime, and analyzes transnational policing strategies. This book is divided into these 4 main parts (themes) and contains 15 chapters written by an international group of well-established academic criminologists. The book provides invaluable reading for undergraduate and postgraduate students in criminology, law, sociology, and international relations. It is also a very useful source of information and analyses for domestic and international law enforcement institutions. This collection strives to show some of the central issues in comparative and transnational criminology and on as wide a geographical canvas as possible. Tables, figures, references, and index