Transnational Crime: Global and Local covers the construction of transnational crime as a concept, and the utility of the concept as a tool of governance. Those aspects of deviant behaviour that constitute our normative understanding of organised criminality, and the impacts of urbanisation, migration and globalisation upon both the practice of crime and the ways in which we understand them are also addressed. In doing so, the module will look at both landmark studies and the emerging horizons within the field of global and local crime studies by close readings of recent cutting-edge books by authors in the field.
This module examines the phenomena of transnational crime from critical and theoretical perspectives. By starting from the paradigms of mafias and the definitions of transnational organised crime, through a multi-disciplinary approach, this module will engage with key definitional debates relating to social, political, media, cultural and ideological dimensions of this field of study. Additionally, theoretical debates are outlined and applied to counter measures, in criminal law and criminal procedures against organised crime across states. In addition to its international and interdisciplinary focus on different modes of cross-border and international organised criminal activities, movements of criminal groups, the module emphases the multinational sphere of criminal networks and their links with societies and communities as a lens through which many of these themes are filtered.
- Module Supervisor: Anna Sergi
- Module Supervisor: Carlos Solar