Common Goods and Evils?: The Formation of Global Crime Governance

ISBN-13: 9780199674602 / Angielski / Twarda / 2013 / 296 str.

Jakobi, Anja P.

Opis

Global crime governance has emerged as an important component of world politics. It is manifested in national and international agendas, the proliferation of global regulations, growing international budgets, and the enlarged mandates of international organizations. As a result, the definition and prosecution of crime is now increasingly homogenous, but it also shows variance: some crime policies are institutionalized coherently or attached to strong international organizations, while others are weak or dispersed across different forums. Based on sociological institutionalism, this book examines questions of structural variance in the institutional design of global governance. It shows that the interplay of strong actors and rationalization principles lead to more coherent forms of global crime governance, while normative arguments related to crime are more likely to result in fragmented forms. In consequence -- and contrary to many scholars' assumptions -- global crime governance is strongest in those areas that are least attached to moral statements.

O autorze

Anja P. Jakobi, PhD, is Senior Research Associate at the Leibniz-Institute Peace Research Institute Frankfurt. She is also adjunct Associate Professor (PD) at the University of Darmstadt, and held many visiting positions for research and teaching at universities worldwide. She holds postgraduate degrees in political science and sociology, and her research analyzes world society at the intersection of international relations research and sociological theorizing. She specializes in global governance, global agenda-setting, and policy diffusion, currently with an emphasis on international organizations and other actors in security, peace, and conflict.