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Bhatia, Nabil; Sheptycki, James --- "Criminological perspectives on transnational crime: interdisciplinary criminology and transnational crime" [2019] ELECD 2976; in Mitsilegas, Valsamis; Hufnagel, Saskia; Moiseienko, Anton (eds), "Research Handbook on Transnational Crime" (Edward Elgar Publishing, 2019) 17

Book Title: Research Handbook on Transnational Crime

Editor(s): Mitsilegas, Valsamis; Hufnagel, Saskia; Moiseienko, Anton

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

Section: Chapter 3

Section Title: Criminological perspectives on transnational crime: interdisciplinary criminology and transnational crime

Author(s): Bhatia, Nabil; Sheptycki, James

Number of pages: 15

Abstract/Description:

The global system is very complex and difficult to describe. Combining transnational and comparative criminological perspectives provides ‘binocular’ vision at an interdisciplinary intersection of inquiry where crime and crime control responses are manifest in the contested process of ‘making up’ global social order. This chapter provides an overview of the ways in which comparative and transnational viewpoints can be focused in different regional contexts, casting light on particular marginal crime phenomena such as crimes of the military and crimes against the environment. The transnational and comparative perspective opens up a field of inquiry which absorbs issues and theoretical ideas in the attempt to comprehend a global profusion of harms and threats that somehow converge around the politics and practices of crime definition and crime control. Polarised debates between ‘social constructionists’ and ‘realists’ regarding these issues produce a situation of radical confusion. We argue that this can be successfully mediated by taking advantage of the binocular vision the transnational and comparative viewpoint suggests.