Governing Through Globalised Crime: Futures for International Criminal Justice

Governing through Globalised Crime analyses the impact of the new globalisation of crime on the governance capacity of the international criminal justice system. It explores how the perceived increased risk in global security has resulted in a reformulation of the relationship between crime and governance.This book argues that values of freedom, equality, communitarian harmony and personal integrity which the prosecution of crimes against humanity are said to advance, need not be sacrificed in a new world order obsessed with partial security and secularized risk. This book interrogates the governance capacity of international criminal justice, arguing that it provides a central, and as yet compromised, tool for global governance.In exploring the dependency of global governance on crime and control, projections can be made about the changing face of international criminal justice. Fundamental transformation is required to hold unjust global dominion to account.The book's policy perspective challenges international criminal justice to return to the more critical position justice has exercised in the separation of powers constitutional legality. For liberal democratic theory at least, judicial authority and its institutions have ensured constitutional legality by requiring the legislature and the executive to operate accountably against a higher normative order. When the analysis moves to the consideration of victim community interests, and from there to the appropriate global constituencies of international criminal justice, the nature and limitations of international criminal justice supporting governance in the risk/security model, becomes apparent.