Globalization and Crime

Katja Franko Aas is professor in Criminology at the Department of Criminology and Sociology of Law at the University of Oslo. Katja's research has been focused on two related areas: the use of advanced information and communication technologies in contemporary crime control strategies, border controls in particular, and globalization processes and their impact on criminology and criminal justice. She has been involved in several research projects and was among other project leader of Crime Control and Technological Culture, funded by the Norwegian Research Council. She is currently working on the project Crime Control in the Borderlands of Europe, funded by the European Research Council's Starting Grants, about the impact of immigration on contemporary criminal justice agencies and patterns of crime control.

VOLUME ONE: CONCEPT, HISTORY, METHOD The Globalization Debate - Anthony McGrew Putting the Advanced Capitalist State in Its Place Criminology beyond the Nation State - Russell Hogg Global Conflicts, Human Rights and 'the New World Disorder' Analyzing a World in Motion - Katja Franko Aas Global Flows Meet 'Criminology of the Other' Illicit Globalization - Peter Andreas Myths, Misconceptions and Historical Lessons Measuring the Threat of Global Crime - Paul Knepper Insights from Research by the League of Nations into the Traffic of Women Enterpreneurs of Punishment - Malcolm Feeley The Legacy of Privatization Transnational Criminology and the Globalization of Harm Production - Ben Bowling Introduction to Global Woman - Barbara Ehrenreich and Arlie Hochschild Nannies, Maids and Sex Workers in the New Economy Global Anomie, Dysnomie and Economic Crime - Nikos Passas Hidden Consequences of Neo-Liberalism and Globalization in Russia and around the World The World Bank and Crimes of Globalization - David Friedrichs and Jessica Friedrichs A Case Study The Globalization of Crime Control - John Muncie The Case of Youth and Juvenile Justice Penal Policy and Political Economy - Michael Cavadino and James Dignan Comparative Criminal Justice - David Nelken Beyond Ethnocentrism and Relativism The Comparative Method in Globalized Criminology - Frances Pakes Cosmopolitical Realism - Ulrich Beck On the Distinction between Cosmopolitanism in Philosophy and the Social Sciences Jurisdiction and Scale - Mariana Valverde Legal 'Technicalities' as Resources for Theory Manufacturing the Global - Michael Burawoy VOLUME TWO: TRANSNATIONAL CRIME, DEVIANCE AND CRIME CONTROL Going down the Glocal - Dick Hobbs The Local Context of Organized Crime The Architecture of Drug Trafficking - Michael Kenney Network Forms of Organization in the Columbian Cocaine Trade How Mafias Take Advantage of Globalization - Federico Varese The Russian Mafia in Italy Global Prohibition Regimes - Ethan Nadelmann The Evolution of Norms in International Society The Terrorist Threat - Ulrich Beck World Risk Society Revisited Criminology and Terrorism - Gabe Mythen and Sandra Walkate Which Thesis? Risk Society or Governmentality? Pre-Crime and Counter-Terrorism? - Jude McCulloch and Sharon Pickering Internal and External Aspects of Security - Didier Bigo Valiant Beggars and Global Vagabonds - Leanne Weber and Benjamin Bowling Select, Eject, Immobilize 'In a Peaceful Life' - Dario Melossi Migration and the Crime of Modernity in Europe/Italy Subjectivity and Identity in Detention - Mary Bosworth Punishment and Society in a Global Age Displacement and Stigma - David Brotherton and Luis Barrios The Social-Psychological Crisis of the Deportee Loose Women or Lost Women? The Re-Emergence of the Myth of White Slavery in Contemporary Discourses of Trafficking in Women - Jo Doezma Cybercrime and the Culture of Fear - David Wall Social Science Fiction(s) and the Production of Knowledge about Cybercrime The Global Cops Cometh - James Sheptycki Reflections on Transnationalization, Knowledge Work and Policing Subculture Globalizing Surveillance - David Lyon Comparative and Sociological Perspectives Spectacular Security - Philip Boyle and Kevin Haggerty Mega-Events and the Security Complex VOLUME THREE: NEW DIRECTIONS IN CRIMINOLOGY AND CRIMINAL JUSTICE Orientalism, Occidentalism and the Sociology of Crime - Maureen Cain Imperialism, Crime and Criminology - Biko Agozino Towards the Decolonization of Criminology Rethinking Narratives of Penal Change in Global Context - Wayne Morrison Human Rights and Crimes of the State - Stanley Cohen The Culture of Denial State Crime by Proxy and Judicial Othering - Ruth Jamieson and Kieran McEvoy Towards a Criminology of Crimes against Humanity - Daniel Maier-Katkin, Daniel Mears and Thomas Bernard The Criminology of Genocide - John Hagan, Wenona Raymond-Richmond and Patricia Parker The Death and Rape of Darfur Collective Violence and Individual Punishment - Mark Drumbl The Criminality of Mass Atrocity Partial Truth and Reconciliation in the Longue Duree - John Braithwaite Regulation of Prison Conditions - Dirk Van Zyl Smit Abolishing the Death Penalty Worldwide - Roger Hood and Carolyn Hoyle The Impact of a 'New Dynamic' A Green Field for Criminology? A Proposal for a Perspective - Nigel South Food Crime, Regulation and the Biotech Harvest - Reece Walters Beyond White Man's Justice - Barbara Hudson Race, Gender and Justice in Late Modernity