Autore
Sheptycki, James W. E.

Titolo
Alcune riflessioni sociologiche su crimine e polizia transnazionale
Periodico
Studi sulla questione criminale
Anno: 2012 - Fascicolo: 3 - Pagina iniziale: 79 - Pagina finale: 96

This essay seeks to connect the sociological phenomena of transnational crime andtransnational policing through a critical discussion of the terms used to describe them. Itargues that authorized discourses regarding transnational crime are selective and partialand that this results in two kinds of failure. It is a positive failure insofar as increasingpolicing power in response to a global crime panic comes at the expense of civil libertiesand human rights. It is a negative failure because the transnational policing capacity thathas been developed is unable to respond to the criminological consequences that are a real,albeit negative, aspect of globalization. Sociologically speaking, the surveillant assemblageof the emergent global police security-complex is an awesome and unaccountable powerlegitimitated on the basis of specified folkdevils. However, and in spite of well-publicizedclaims to success, due to its own internal organizational pathologies and institutionalfragmentation, the police security-complex is capricious. The essay concludes by arguingthat critical the examination of the concepts that constitute transnational crime andpolicing is a crucial contribution to the sociological understanding of the global systemand its governance.



SICI: 1828-4973(2012)3<79:ARSSCE>2.0.ZU;2-T
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