The field of Global Crime, Justice and Security is one that can be approached from a number of angles, reflected in the diversity of interests of teaching staff and the spread of courses across the Schools of Law and of Social and Political Science. The reading list here reflects this diversity. The first two texts represent good introductions from different perspectives (criminological and legal). They are really good places to start, and I’d particularly recommend looking at them if you have never studied criminology or law before. It’s absolutely not necessary for you to look at all of the other readings identified here before you start the programme. I’ve included them more to give you a flavour of the breadth and reach of the programme, and to stimulate your curiosity!
- Katja FRANKO 2019. Globalization and Crime. London: Sage.
An accessible text on the relationships between globalization and crime, the text covers theoretical perspectives on globalization, specific cross-border crimes such as human trafficking and crimes in cyberspace, and related issues such as state sovereignty.
- Rosalyn HIGGINS 1994. Problems and Pr ocess: International Law and How We Use It. Oxford: Clarendon.
A great introduction to international law for those without a firm background in the subject, the book deals with the origins, functions and institutions of international law. See also her Themes and Theories: Selected Essays, Speeches and Writings in International Law from 2009.
- Mangai NATARAJAN (ed.) 2019. International and Transnational Crime and Justice. Cambridge University Press.
An extensive series of short papers on topics core to the Global Crime programme. While quality is somewhat mixed, the book is included for range.
- Ben BRADFORD, Beatrice JAUREGUI, Ian LOADER and Jonny STEINBERG (eds) 2016. The SAGE Handbook of Global Policing. London: SAGE Publications.
An extensive set of essays covering diverse issues around global policing and responding to global crime, including: post-colonial and post-conflict policing; the relationships between police and states; rule of law and Human Rights; policing in war and armed conflict; and, policing and environmental governance.
- Peter ANDREAS and Ethan NADELMANN 2006. Policing the Globe: Criminalization and Crime Control in International Relations. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
The text examines the origins of international crime control, particularly from the perspective of Europe and US, and gives an account of developments in this field in the wake of the end of the Cold War and the 2001 attacks on New York and Washington.
- Nancy Amoury COMBS 2006. Guilty Pleas in International Criminal Law: Constructing a Restorative Justice Approach. Stanford: Stanford University Press.
Plea bargaining is often thought of as a rather grubby feature of domestic criminal justice systems, accepted on pragmatic rather than principled grounds. But the cost pressures on international criminal tribunals have seen the practice become established there also, raising difficult questions about the purpose such tribunals are meant to serve. This book is an important attempt to grapple with an emerging problem.
- Den Boer, M. (ed) (2018), Comparative Policing from a Legal Perspective. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar PublishingDen Boer, M. (ed) (2018), Comparative Policing from a Legal Perspective. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing
Grounded in legal approaches to policing the book includes general chapters providing comparative framing along with more detailed thematic chapters (e.g. gender, technology, borders…)
- Max DU PLESSIS and Stephen PETÉ 2007. Repairing the Past? International Perspectives on Reparations for Gross Human Rights Abuses. Antwerp: Intersentia.
A selection of essays offering a range of perspectives, legal, political and anthropological, on the question of dealing with historical wrongs.
- Tim NEWBURN and Richard SPARKS (eds.) 2004. Criminal Justice and Political Cultures: National and International Dimensions of Crime Control. Cullompton: Willan.
A series of essays which examine the growth in cooperation and the question of transfers of policies and ideas between jurisdictions facing similar or shared crime problems.
- Tom DAEMS, Dirk VAN ZYL SMIT and Sonja SNACKEN (eds.) 2013 European Penology? Oxford: Hart.
This collection explores to what extent we can see a common frame of penal policy and common understanding of punishment in Europe.
Resources on prisons across the globe, including numbers detained. Also a great site for links to international publications on the topic.
- Vincenzo RUGGIERO, Nigel SOUTH and Ian TAYLOR (eds.) 1998. The New European Criminology: Crime and Social Order in Europe. London: Routledge.
There are a variety of interesting essays in this collection dealing with Europe as an ideal and as a set of institutions, dealing with new developments in criminality following the cold war and offering comparative studies within Europe. Part 4 of this collection handles links between international developments and crime and people’s sense of crime as a phenomenon with local effects.
- William A SCHABAS 2009. Genocide in International Law [2nd edn] Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Lengthy but readable, this is an enormously detailed account of what the subtitle to the second edition describes as “the crime of crimes”.
- Barry VAUGHAN and Shane KILCOMMINS 2008. Terrorism, Rights and the Rule of Law: Negotiating Justice in Ireland. Cullompton: Willan.
Focusing on the republic of Ireland, the book examines the impact of globalization on state authority, particularly through the rise of alternative, often supra-state, sites of rulemaking and decision taking.
