The Unlawful Society: Global Crime and Security in a Complex World [Hardcover]

Exploring the dynamics of law-making in a world where the pace of technological change is outstripping our capacity to capture new forms of transnational crime, this book uses the innovative concept of unlawfulness to examine the crimes of the global overworld, forming a unique analysis of global order in the twenty-first century.Introduction 1. Criminal Measures: Counting the Costs of Transnational Crime 2. Converging in the Shadows: Complex Security, Complex Crime 3. The Globalization of State Crime 4. "Good Corp, Bad Corp": Market Crimes and Systemic Insecurity 5. Invidious Choices: Humanitarianism on the Edge 6. Amorality, Complexity and Cosmopolitan Code

Battersby's masterful treatment of 'unlawfulness' in various cultural contexts manages to unravel the complexity of global crime and related dynamics. Clear, accessible, and erudite, this study provides much needed insights into the dark side of globalization. - Manfred B. Steger, Professor of Political Science and Global Studies, University of Hawai'i-Manoa and RMIT University, Australia

Paul Battersby has written an innovative and compelling account of the changing nature of global crime. The book delves into the complex and frequently hidden mechanisms and processes of the global underworld, a world occupied by both state and non-state actors. [It] will be engaging reading to all those interested in the contemporary pattern of unlawful behaviour that extends across borders. - David Held, University of Durham, UK

Criminologists and more broadly, any serious students of crime and criminal law who commit themselves to engaging fully with the book should be rewarded with a richer, more sophisticated understanding of the increasingly complex world within which crime and its control plays out. - David O. Friedrichs, Criminal Law and Criminal Justice Books

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