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Focusing on criminal justice and national security measures, the author analyzes border crimes and violence. The article encompasses vital territorial objectives like wars/open conflicts (Cold War, war in Iraq, September 11). Successes of transnational crime are declared to be invalid due to significant losses of both sides in a war and the engagement of organized crime matters like the market of illicit drugs and terrorism. The author concludes that though violence and terrorism at the neoliberal frontier have been intact, and the transnational crime shows success in progressing globalization of U.S.-centered, pro-market, anti-welfare policies, yet it succeeded in other agendas like an image of a strong state that attempts to provide security and fights with internal enemies. L. Babiasz

The collection considers the growing importance of the border as a prime site for state activity and the impact of such activity on human rights and global justice. It explores how state activity on the border simultaneously creates and responds to crime, criminalizing individuals who irregularly cross borders while ignoring far more harmful cross border activities committed by powerful actors. This book extends understandings of borders in order to make sense of the shifts in the ways states exercise power and control over activities that are connected to or impact on borders, and the consequences of these actions, particularly for vulnerable groups. Covering subjects from e-trafficking, child soldiers, the 'global war on terror' in Africa and police activities that generate crime, this collection analyses material on a broad range of issues related to transnational crime and countermeasures from North American, European and Australian sources.

Within criminology 'the state' is often ignored as an actor or represented as a neutral force. While state crime studies have proliferated, criminologists have not paid attention to the history and impact of resistance to state crime. This book recognises that crimes of the state are far more serious and harmful than crimes committed by individuals, and considers how such crimes may be contested, prevented, challenged or stopped. Gathering together key scholars from the UK, USA, Asia, Australia and New Zealand, this book offers a deepened understanding of state crime through the practical and a.

This article provides a critical review of key theoretical positions relevant to border control and sets out an agenda for developing these ideas. In 2005 Mythen and Walklate published a theoretical milestone for the study of terrorism in their article 'Criminology and terrorism: Which thesis? Risk society or governmentality?'. Those authors reviewed two theories of risk, considering how each might contribute to understanding 'new terrorism'. Inspired by 'Which thesis?' we review, contrast and compare three key theoretical contributions relevant to penology, criminology and border control: Stump's 'crimmigration' thesis, Bosworth and Guild's adaptation of the 'new penology' perspective, and Krasmann's critique of Jakobs' 'enemy penology' thesis. The article consolidates these important theoretical strands into one critical discussion, highlighting the growing relevance of the pre-crime literature to the study of borders, and signposting potential theoretical developments within border criminology that build on these foundations.