Comprehensively laying out the concept of crimilegality, this book presents a novel perspective on the relationship between what is conventionally termed organised crime and political order in the contemporary developing world. In hybrid crimilegal orders the moral, normative and social boundaries between legality and illegality-criminality are blurred, and through the violation of the official law, the illegal-criminal sphere of social life becomes legitimate and morally acceptable, while the legal turns illegitimate and immoral. Several examples of crimilegality and crimilegal governance in Colombia and Nigeria, including in relation to armed conflict termination, are used to illustrate these complex processes.
1. Introduction.- 2.
Crimilegal Order: What's Behind a Term?.- 3. Mobbed-Up, Corrupt or
Crimilegal Orders?.- 4. Instances of
Crimilegality in Colombia and Nigeria.- 5. Governance and Violence in
Crimilegal Orders.- 6. Overcoming Armed Conflict in
Crimilegal Orders.- 7. By Way of Conclusion: Taking the Research on
Crimilegality Forward.
Markus Schultze-Kraft is Associate Professor in the Department of Political Studies at Universidad Icesi, Colombia.
A major contribution to the literature. The book adds an important facet to the discourse on organized crime and illegal governance.
Klaus von Lampe, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, CUNY, USA
Markus Schultze-Kraft's impressive new book on crimilegal orders explores the interface between politics, organised crime al,
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