Vincenzo Ruggiero
- Published in print:
- 2001
- Published Online:
- March 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780199248117
- eISBN:
- 9780191697708
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199248117.003.0004
- Subject:
- Law, Criminal Law and Criminology
This chapter examines the perpetuation of racial barriers in criminal economies in Europe. It suggests that ethnic minorities have reduced opportunities not only in the official economy but also in ...
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This chapter examines the perpetuation of racial barriers in criminal economies in Europe. It suggests that ethnic minorities have reduced opportunities not only in the official economy but also in the criminal one. It describes a case study of immigrant criminals which reveals that the types of organized criminality accessible to immigrants in Europe are destined to remain pariah forms of crimes due to their exclusion from resources, the networks, the protection, encouragements, and economic dividends.Less
This chapter examines the perpetuation of racial barriers in criminal economies in Europe. It suggests that ethnic minorities have reduced opportunities not only in the official economy but also in the criminal one. It describes a case study of immigrant criminals which reveals that the types of organized criminality accessible to immigrants in Europe are destined to remain pariah forms of crimes due to their exclusion from resources, the networks, the protection, encouragements, and economic dividends.
Vincenzo Ruggiero
- Published in print:
- 2001
- Published Online:
- March 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780199248117
- eISBN:
- 9780191697708
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199248117.003.0001
- Subject:
- Law, Criminal Law and Criminology
This book presents essays on anti-criminology and examines a range of criminal activities conducted in different European contexts. It examines a conventional criminal activity par excellence, ...
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This book presents essays on anti-criminology and examines a range of criminal activities conducted in different European contexts. It examines a conventional criminal activity par excellence, discusses the Fordist model of criminal activity, and attempts to identify a continuum between irregular, hidden, semi-legal, and overtly illegal economies. It also explores the perpetuation of racial barriers in criminal economies, describes the characteristics of criminal labour in light of the growing variety of the demand and supply of illegal goods and services, and examines the dynamics underlying trafficking in human beings and the illicit transfer of arms.Less
This book presents essays on anti-criminology and examines a range of criminal activities conducted in different European contexts. It examines a conventional criminal activity par excellence, discusses the Fordist model of criminal activity, and attempts to identify a continuum between irregular, hidden, semi-legal, and overtly illegal economies. It also explores the perpetuation of racial barriers in criminal economies, describes the characteristics of criminal labour in light of the growing variety of the demand and supply of illegal goods and services, and examines the dynamics underlying trafficking in human beings and the illicit transfer of arms.
V. Spike Peterson
- Published in print:
- 2013
- Published Online:
- March 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780814770207
- eISBN:
- 9780814770139
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- NYU Press
- DOI:
- 10.18574/nyu/9780814770207.003.0003
- Subject:
- Political Science, Security Studies
This chapter focuses on sources of insecurity rooted in globalization, global interdependence, as well as political and economic inequalities on a global scale. It shows how neoliberal globalization ...
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This chapter focuses on sources of insecurity rooted in globalization, global interdependence, as well as political and economic inequalities on a global scale. It shows how neoliberal globalization has resulted in the expansion of informalization, particularly in conflict zones. These processes of informalization are gendered and are linked to processes of economic exploitation and political militarization that divide the globe. The chapter also draws out the connections between criminal and conflict economies at the local and macrolevel, highlighting the many ways in which the global trade in drugs, arms, and commodities such as gold, diamonds, and copper supports and is supported by violence.Less
This chapter focuses on sources of insecurity rooted in globalization, global interdependence, as well as political and economic inequalities on a global scale. It shows how neoliberal globalization has resulted in the expansion of informalization, particularly in conflict zones. These processes of informalization are gendered and are linked to processes of economic exploitation and political militarization that divide the globe. The chapter also draws out the connections between criminal and conflict economies at the local and macrolevel, highlighting the many ways in which the global trade in drugs, arms, and commodities such as gold, diamonds, and copper supports and is supported by violence.
Teo Ballvé
- Published in print:
- 2020
- Published Online:
- September 2020
- ISBN:
- 9781501747533
- eISBN:
- 9781501747564
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Cornell University Press
- DOI:
- 10.7591/cornell/9781501747533.003.0006
- Subject:
- Anthropology, Latin American Cultural Anthropology
This chapter dissects how grassroots development initiatives enabled the creation of a vast criminal economy. Paramilitaries' use of grassroots development went beyond simply whitewashing their ...
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This chapter dissects how grassroots development initiatives enabled the creation of a vast criminal economy. Paramilitaries' use of grassroots development went beyond simply whitewashing their plunder with fashionable, politically correct development-speak. The discourses, institutions, and practices of grassroots development formed an integral part of the paras' extralegal political economy. In the context of the frontier effect, grassroots development made their economies of violence surprisingly compatible with formal projects of liberal state building. The paramilitaries turned grassroots development into a vehicle both for executing their massive land grabs and for promoting, in their words, the “arrival of the state.” As a strategic assemblage of discourses, practices, and institutional formations, the grassroots development apparatus did more than simply give the paras' economic ventures a veneer of symbolic legitimacy; it also enabled and worked in conjunction with the concrete practices of paramilitary rule. Grassroots development was thus both a means of state building and a way of laundering their violently and illegally accumulated landholdings.Less
This chapter dissects how grassroots development initiatives enabled the creation of a vast criminal economy. Paramilitaries' use of grassroots development went beyond simply whitewashing their plunder with fashionable, politically correct development-speak. The discourses, institutions, and practices of grassroots development formed an integral part of the paras' extralegal political economy. In the context of the frontier effect, grassroots development made their economies of violence surprisingly compatible with formal projects of liberal state building. The paramilitaries turned grassroots development into a vehicle both for executing their massive land grabs and for promoting, in their words, the “arrival of the state.” As a strategic assemblage of discourses, practices, and institutional formations, the grassroots development apparatus did more than simply give the paras' economic ventures a veneer of symbolic legitimacy; it also enabled and worked in conjunction with the concrete practices of paramilitary rule. Grassroots development was thus both a means of state building and a way of laundering their violently and illegally accumulated landholdings.
Børge Bakken (ed.)
- Published in print:
- 2018
- Published Online:
- September 2018
- ISBN:
- 9789888208661
- eISBN:
- 9789888455119
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Hong Kong University Press
- DOI:
- 10.5790/hongkong/9789888208661.001.0001
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Asian Studies
“Crime and the Chinese Dream” is edited by Børge Bakken. Although official propaganda emphasizes the Chinese Dream as the dream of all Chinese - a strong China with a prosperous population - but the ...
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“Crime and the Chinese Dream” is edited by Børge Bakken. Although official propaganda emphasizes the Chinese Dream as the dream of all Chinese - a strong China with a prosperous population - but the opportunities of achieving prosperity by legal means are distributed unequally. Crime and the Chinese Dream reveals how people on the margins of Chinese society find their way to the Chinese Dream through illegal or deviant behaviours. The case studies in this book include corrupt doctors in public hospitals in Beijing, fraudsters in a village called “cake uncles”, illegal motorcycle taxi drivers in Guangzhou, drug users being “re-educated” in detention centres, and alleged internet addicts who are treated as criminals by the system in boot camps under an unqualified and uncertified psychiatric regime. Despite the patriotic and collectivistic tint of the official dream metaphor, the contributors to this volume show that the Chinese Dream is essentially a state capitalist dream, which is embedded within the problems and opportunities of capitalism, as well as a dream of control where a vast number of people are excluded from achieving the official dream of prosperity.Less
“Crime and the Chinese Dream” is edited by Børge Bakken. Although official propaganda emphasizes the Chinese Dream as the dream of all Chinese - a strong China with a prosperous population - but the opportunities of achieving prosperity by legal means are distributed unequally. Crime and the Chinese Dream reveals how people on the margins of Chinese society find their way to the Chinese Dream through illegal or deviant behaviours. The case studies in this book include corrupt doctors in public hospitals in Beijing, fraudsters in a village called “cake uncles”, illegal motorcycle taxi drivers in Guangzhou, drug users being “re-educated” in detention centres, and alleged internet addicts who are treated as criminals by the system in boot camps under an unqualified and uncertified psychiatric regime. Despite the patriotic and collectivistic tint of the official dream metaphor, the contributors to this volume show that the Chinese Dream is essentially a state capitalist dream, which is embedded within the problems and opportunities of capitalism, as well as a dream of control where a vast number of people are excluded from achieving the official dream of prosperity.
