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VIVA BOOKS PRIVATE LIMITED Crime and the Global Political Economy by H. Richard Friman
Crime has gone global. Conventional explanations point to ways in which criminals have exploited technological innovations deregulation and free markets to triumph over state sovereignty. Crime and the Global Political Economy reveals a more complex reality. Taking as a point of departure the reality that state and societal actors are challenged by – and complicit in – the expansion of criminals activities on a global scale the authors demonstrate that the political economic and normative agendas of those actors lead to selective criminalization and diverse patterns of compliance with prohibition regimes. Crime they convincingly argue is an integral part of globalization rather than simply its underside. Their work not only expands our understanding of global crime but also pushes forward the boundaries of mainstream IPE on issues of globalization transnational relations governance and sovereignty.