Borders and Crime Pre-Crime, Mobility and Serious Harm in an Age of Globalization

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.

PROFESSOR SHARON PICKERING is a Criminologist at Monash University, Australia. She researches irregular border crossing and has written in the areas of refugees and trafficking with a focus on gender and human rights. She currently leads a series of projects focusing on the intersections of security and migration. She has previously worked in Northern Ireland on counter-terrorism policing, and human rights and women in South East Asia. She is currently the Editor of the Australian and New Zealand Journal of Criminology. She has recently taken up an Australian Research Council Future Fellowship on Border Policing and Security.


PROFESSOR JUDE MCCULLOCH is a Criminologist at Monash University, Australia. Her research focuses on state terror, state violence and state crime and her latest book on this topic (with Elizabeth Stanley) is entitled State Crime and Resistance (2012). Her research includes police use of force, counter terrorism laws and policing, (in)security, and the violence of incarceration. She is on the editorial boards of The Australian and New Zealand Journal of Criminology, State Crime Journal and Critical Studies on Terrorism.

List of Tables and Figures
Notes on Contributors
List of Abbreviations
Introduction; S.Pickering & J.McCulloch
The Processes of Criminalization of Migrants and the Borders of 'Fortress Europe'; D.Melossi
Policing a World in Motion; L.Weber
Female Migrants: Sex, Value, and Credibility in Immigration Control; M.Marmo & E.Smith
The State, Virtual Borders and E-trafficking: Between Fact and Fiction; S.Milivojevic
Criminal Justice/Social Justice: The Co-optation and Insulation of Organizational Wrongdoing; G.Cavender & N.Jurik
Biosecurity and State-Corporate Interests; R.White
Trafficking, Child Soldiers and Globalization of the Legal Field; P.Olsson
Restorative Justice, Globalization and the Logic of Empire; C.Cunneen
(Un)Controlled Operations: Undercover in the Security Control Society; D.Wilson & J.McCulloch
Manufacturing Terror: The Promotion of the 'Long War'; J.Keenan