Unraveling the Crime-Development Nexus [Paperback]

Unraveling the Crime-Development Nexusinterrogates the claim that crime represents a significant threat to economic development. Combining historical analysis with a unique empirical perspective based on interviews with high-level international crime policy insiders, it accounts for how and why the crime-development nexus has been invoked by international actors, including the United Nations, to advance and secure variations of a global capitalist development agenda since the 19th Century.

Drawing on perspectives anchored in critical criminology, International Relations, and development studies,Unraveling the Crime Development Nexusreveals that the international crime policy agenda today remains overwhelmingly responsive to those who benefit from the further expansion of neoliberal globalisation, while simultaneously marginalising subordinate actors throughout the developing world.

The book concludes by considering how international organisations, civil society actors, and major donors might support a more equitable and sustainable model of global crime governance that addresses the structural causes of crime and uneven development at a global level.

Jarrett Blausteinis associate professor in the School of Regulation and Global Governance at the Australian National University.
Tom Chodoris a lecturer in International Relations at Monash University in Australia.
Nathan W. Pinois professor of Sociology at Texas State University in the United States.

The authors of this book attempt to discover how crime and efforts to control crime contribute to social development, specifically in the United Nations. Using history and criminological theory, the authors start by explaining why crime is a development issue. Then they dive into a larger discussion of theory and global crime governance before examining the history behind the crime-development nexus. The remainder of the text deals with issues surrols(