Globalization and Crime by Katja Franko

Globalization and Crime by Katja Franko

Providing readers with coverage of cutting-edge issues from a top name in the field, this book is the ideal resource for study and research in this complex and fast-moving field.

Globalization and Crime is a tour de force of how, where and why criminology needs to be applied and extended to our rapidly changing worldThis sophisticated and detailed book proclaims the shift of globalization from the periphery to the centre of criminological study and in so doing rapidly improves its theoretical and methodological endeavour. For all students of criminology this is an exciting must read as the future paths of the discipline are mapped out.
Professor Sharon Pickering
Border Observatory, Monash University, Australia

Katja Franko Aas is professor in Criminology at the Department of Criminology and Sociology of Law at the University of Oslo. Katja′s research has been focused on two related areas: the use of advanced information and communication technologies in contemporary crime control strategies, border controls in particular, and globalization processes and their impact on criminology and criminal justice. She has been involved in several research projects and was among other project leader of Crime Control and Technological Culture, funded by the Norwegian Research Council. She is currently working on the project Crime Control in the Borderlands of Europe, funded by the European Research Council′s Starting Grants, about the impact of immigration on contemporary criminal justice agencies and patterns of crime control.

SKU	Unavailable
ISBN 13	9781446201985
ISBN 10	1446201988
Title	Globalization and Crime
Author	Katja Franko
Series	Key Approaches To Criminology
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Sage Publications Ltd
Year published	2013-04-18
Number of pages	280
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