Unraveling the Crime-Development Nexus
Abstract
Unraveling the Crime-Development Nexus interrogates the claim that crime represents a significant threat to economic development. Combining historical analysis with a unique empirical perspective based on interviews with high-level international crime policy insiders, it accounts for how and why the ‘crime-development nexus’ has been invoked by international actors, including the United Nations, to advance and secure variations of a global capitalist development agenda since the 19th Century.
Drawing on perspectives anchored in critical criminology, International Relations, and development studies, Unraveling the Crime Development Nexus reveals that the international crime policy agenda today remains overwhelmingly responsive to those who benefit from the further expansion of neoliberal globalisation, while simultaneously marginalising subordinate actors throughout the ‘developing’ world.
The book concludes by considering how international organisations, civil society actors, and major donors might support a more equitable and sustainable model of global crime governance that addresses the structural causes of crime and uneven development at a global level.
Schlagworte
Transhistorical Security Public Policy Political Economy United Nations Developing Nations International Development Global South Capitalism Crime Growth Criminology Justice- 1–24 Introduction 1–24
- 197–210 Conclusion 197–210
- 211–214 Notes 211–214
- 215–244 References 215–244
- 245–260 Index 245–260
- 261–262 About the Authors 261–262