Crimes of Globalization

This book addresses immensely consequential crimes in the world today that, to date, have been almost wholly neglected by students of crime and criminal justice: crimes of globalization. This term refers to the hugely harmful consequences of the policies and practices of international financial institutions – principally in the global South. A case is made for characterizing these policies and practices specifically as crime. Although there is now a substantial criminological literature on transnational crimes, crimes of states and state-corporate crimes, crimes of globalization intersect with, but are not synonymous with, these crimes.

Identifying specific reasons why students of crime and criminal justice should have an interest in this topic, this text also identifies underlying assumptions, defines key terms, and situates crimes of globalization within the criminological enterprise. The authors also define crimes of globalization and review the literature to date on the topic; review the current forms of crimes of globalization; outline an integrated theory of crimes of globalization; and identify the challenges of controlling the international financial institutions that perpetrate crimes of globalization, including the role of an emerging Global Justice Movement.

The authors of this book have published widely on white collar crime, crimes of states, state-corporate crime and related topics. This book will be essential reading for academics and students of crime and criminal justice who, the authors argue, need to attend to emerging forms of crime that arise specifically out of the conditions of globalization in our increasingly globalized, rapidly changing world.

Dawn L. Rothe is an Associate Professor of Criminology at Old Dominion University. She is the author or co-author of six books, over six dozen peer-reviewed articles and book chapters dealing with related topics to crimes of globalization including state-corporate crime, state crime, and the international criminal justice system. Her articles appear in such journals as International Criminal Review, Contemporary Justice, Criminology and Public Policy, Justice Quarterly, Crime, Law and Social Change, and Social Justice as well as in various books. She has been a visiting professor and/or guest lecturer at a number of Universities in Croatia, South Africa, the United Kingdom, and Belgium. In 2008, she received the Critical Criminologists of the Year Award of the Division on Critical Criminology of the American Society of Criminology and in 2010 she was the recipient of the White-Collar Crime Research Consortium Young Scholar of the Year award.

David O. Friedrichs is Distinguished Professor of Sociology/Criminal Justice at the University of Scranton. He has published several books as well over 130 book chapters, articles, encyclopaedia entries, proceedings papers, and essays on topics such as the legitimation of legal order, radical criminology, victimology, violence, narrative jurisprudence, postmodernism, and white collar crime. His articles have been published in such journals as Criminology, Justice Quarterly, Crime & Delinquency, Criminal Justice Review, Criminology & Public Policy, Social Research, Social Problems, Qualitative Sociology, Journal of Legal Education, and Teaching Sociology.. He has been a visiting professor or guest lecturer at a number of colleges and Universities, in Europe, South Africa, Israel and Australia, as well as in the United States. In 2005 he received the Lifetime Achievement Award of the Division on Critical Criminology of the American Society of Criminology. He served as President of the White Collar Crime Research Consortium.