Subjects:

Criminology

Contents:

Comparative Criminology: Problems and Prospects

Cultural Relativism and Comparative Criminology

Sources of Comparative Crime data

Issues in Comparative Crime Statistics

Crime and Social Control in Saudi Arabia

Crime and Social Control in Israel

Crime and Social Control in China

Crime and Social Control in West Africa

Crime and Social Control in South East Asia

Crime and Social Control in South Africa

Crime and Social Control in the Baltic Republics

Transnational Organised Crime

Drug Trafficking

Crime Against the Environment

Human Smuggling and Immigration

Corporate Crime

White Collar Crime

Corruption

Human Rights and Crime Control

Comparing Police Cultures

Understanding Global Trends in Policing: Research Agenda and Methodology

The transnational police technocracy in the post 9-11 era

Conclusion

The Future of Transnational and Comparative Criminology

This book examines the issues of crime and its control in the 21st century - an era of human history where people live in an increasingly interconnected and interdependent world. It is one of the very few books that examines crime and its control in a global and translational context.

The volume contains 15 chapters, which are written by well-established academic criminologists from different parts of the world.The book is divided into four main parts.

Part one of the book provides an analytical account of the nature of comparative and transnational criminology. It examines the key issue of cultural relativism, sources of cross-national crime data, and cross-national comparison of crime statistics.

Part two focuses on an examination of crime and social control issues in selected regions, or countries. It examines crime and social control in Saudi Arabia, Singapore, China, Post-Apartheid South Africa, and West Africa.

Part three focuses on the analyses of major transnational crime issues. It analyses organised crime, corruption, trafficking in humans, and white-collar crime in a global context.

Part four provides a critical examination of transnational and global responses to transnational crime. This part of the book analyses transnational policing strategies. This book will provide invaluable and first-hand readings for undergraduate and post-gradate students in criminology, law, sociology, and international relations. It will also be a very useful source of information and analyses for domestic and international law enforcement institutions.