Full Description
Crime is not just a reality 'out there', but also the outcome of social constructions: crime is often 'in the eye of the beholder'. When society changes, that is the 'beholders', new developments can be seen as disturbances, which under the pressure of the concerned citizens, can be constructed as crimes. This criminalising construction can be observed concerning irregular migration: refugees, asylum seekers or just irregular migrant workers, seeking their luck in Europe. Regardless of their legal status they are looked upon as a (crime) threat and associated with human smuggling and exploitation of trafficked persons, whether or not in combination with organised crime.
A general driver to new crime constructions is the 'fear of . . .', an uneasiness driving policy and law makers into the direction of new crime constructions or widening existing ones, such as money-laundering.
This is discussed in this volume of the 19th Cross-border Crime Colloquium, held in June 2018 in Kharkiv, consisting of peer-reviewed contributions from 25 expert authors and young and upcoming researchers. They cover many issues at the centre of criminological and criminal policy debates, such as corruption, the mafia, Chinese organised crime, irregular migration and arms trafficking, examples of crossborder crimes that concern us all in Europe and beyond.
Contents
The perspective of constructing and organising crime in Europe: an introduction; Constructing migrants as crime and public order problems: comparing local press representations in two Italian cities; "Government-sponsored crime": The case of Vietnamese undocumented immigrants in Germany and the UK; Transnational crime of Chinese origin in the EU: False flags and real concerns; Human smuggling reconsidered: the case of Lesbos; Market dynamics of harm and labour exploitation; From harmless incivilities to not-so serious organised crime activities. The expanded realm of European crime prevention and some suggestions on how to limit it; How well established is research on organised crime in Germany?; Hierarchy, strategic assets and distinctive capabilities in Scottish organised crime; Changing face of organised crime or old and new usual suspects in the Czech Republic; Cerca Trova: the Italian mafia on Dutch territory; Do firearms link organised crime and terrorism in the Netherlands? A Social Network Analysis exploration; Corruption in the daily life of Ukraine; Police reform in Ukraine. A reconnaissance of perceptions; Moldova: Small country - big problem! Corruption and a mono-garchy; Assessing the outcomes of anti-money laundering policies. Ambitions and reality; Is corporate social responsibility anything more than a mask for multinational (oil) companies?
