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Jul 13, 2021 · examples of global crimes include trafficking, cyber crimes, financial crimes, terrorism and green crimes.
In this article, we add a new layer to the scholarship on the internationalization of criminal law by developing and applying a theoretical framework for studying how practices of criminalization at the international, national, and local levels interact dynamically and recursively over time.
- Ely Aaronson, Gregory Shaffer
- 2021
The International Crime Victim Survey (ICVS) and the United Nations Surveys on Crime Trends and the Operations of Criminal Justice Systems are examples of attempts to collate international crime data.
The view that international crimes are defined principally by reference to an international legal obligation to suppress provides an internally coherent framework, but with the counterintuitive result that many seemingly ordinary domestic offences are, in fact, international crimes.
The examples considered in this course, namely Hurricane Katrina, imprisonment, and the ‘War on Terror’, will enable you to study these aspects through both criminological and social harm approaches.
1. Social contexts: Findlay (1999) argues that “Crime cannot be understood outside its social context” – criminal behaviour, in other words, is influenced by “a variety of social, cultural, political and economic determinants” – and we can note, by way of illustration, how crime is sensitive to three basic contexts: a.
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International crimes such as causing excessive civilian death include justificatory concepts in the definition of the offense; national crimes typically exclude such concepts, which instead appear in the definition of affirmative defences.
