An Introduction to Transnational Criminal Law
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| Anteprima |
National
borders are permeable to all types of illicit action and contraband
goods, whether it is trafficking humans, body parts, digital
information, drugs, weapons, or money. Whilst criminals exist in a
borderless world where territorial boundaries allow them to manipulate
different markets in illicit goods, the authorities who pursue them can
remain constrained inside their own jurisdictions. In a new edition of
his ground-breaking work, Boister examines how states must cooperate to
tackle some of the greatest security threats in this century so far,
analyses to what extent vested interests have determined the course of
global policy and law enforcement, and illustrates how responding to
transnational crime itself becomes a form of international relations
which reorders global political power and becomes, at least in part, an
end in itself. Arguing that transnational criminal law is currently
geared towards suppressing criminal activity, but is not as committed to
ensuring justice, Boister suggests that it might be more strongly
influenced by individual moral panics and a desire for criminal
retribution than an interest in ensuring a proportional response to
offences, protection of human rights, and the preservation of the rule
of law.
