RT Article
T1 Transnational Crime as Productive Fiction
JF Social justice
VO 34
IS 2
SP 19
OP 32
A1 McCulloch, Jude 1958-
LA English
YR 2007
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1747157236
AB Part of a special section on social justice beyond transnational crime. Criminal justice and national security measures linked to transnational crime are conventionally seen as reactive rather than proactive. It can be suggested, however, that the construction of a transnational crime threat has acted as a productive fiction that establishes a rhetorical basis for the transformation and extension of the coercive capacities of states. Despite a failure to counter the threats they purport to address, such transnational crime countermeasures do fulfill a number of agendas. A security paradigm facilitated by the fear and anxiety that has developed around transnational crime allows countries to develop mechanisms for dealing with domestic enemies and to avoid international criticism on human rights grounds, as well as providing strong states with a means of pursuing foreign policy and economic agendas across the world.
K1 Political Science
K1 Law & politics
K1 Power (Social sciences)
K1 Criminal Law
K1 Security systems
K1 National Security
K1 Nation-state
K1 Transnational Crime
K1 Economics
K1 Counterterrorism
K1 Crime
K1 Criminal Justice System