CRIME & GLOBALISATION

INTRODUCTION

The Crime and Globalisation project examines the synergy between globalisation and crime. It looks at the criminogenic effects of globalisation,on the one hand, and new discourses about an underground "axis of evil" of drug trafficking, transnational organised crime and international terrorism, on the other.

The project aims to stimulate critical thinking about mainstream discourses, which turn a blind eye to the criminogenic effects of globalisation, while seeking to make links between the "criminal underworld" and political terrorism.

As regards the criminogenic effects of globalisation,the project is concerned with the number of people being forced to "migrate into illegality" due to impoverishment and marginalisation. It is also concerned with the rise in corporate or white-collar crime as economies become more and more deregulated.

As regards the "axis of evil" of drug trafficking, trans-national organised crime and international terrorism, currently being constructed as the new major global security threat, the project is concerned with the body of multilateral agreements put in place "to fight the scourge". These are being adopted on the basis of vague definitions, scant information and tenuous links, and have serious consequences for civil liberties, human rights and national sovereignty.

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