David Sausdal
Docent | Universitetslektor
Criminogenic Borders : The proliferation and para-criminality of borders
Författare
Summary, in English
This article examines the paradoxical role of borders in shaping crime in the 21st century, particularly within the context of some of the world’s most profitable and harmful transnational and organized crime. Drawing on examples such as drug trafficking, environmental crime, and Internet-based crimes, it is argued that the proliferation of ‘borders’—both physical, bureaucratic, and digital—has created novel
opportunities for criminal exploitation. Rather than fearing or avoiding borders, many lawbreakers strategically utilize them, embedding illegal activities within the very infrastructures designed to otherwise demarcate and regulate markets, movement, and identity. In doing so, this article contributes to the growing fields ‘global’ and ‘border’ criminology. Ultimately, it argues for the grey-zone concept of para-
crime where legal and illegal practices are increasingly intertwined to a degree where one becomes almost indistinguishable from the other, and where borders—rather than serving solely as barriers to be overcome—have become central components of criminal enterprise.
opportunities for criminal exploitation. Rather than fearing or avoiding borders, many lawbreakers strategically utilize them, embedding illegal activities within the very infrastructures designed to otherwise demarcate and regulate markets, movement, and identity. In doing so, this article contributes to the growing fields ‘global’ and ‘border’ criminology. Ultimately, it argues for the grey-zone concept of para-
crime where legal and illegal practices are increasingly intertwined to a degree where one becomes almost indistinguishable from the other, and where borders—rather than serving solely as barriers to be overcome—have become central components of criminal enterprise.
Avdelning/ar
- Sociologiska institutionen
Publiceringsår
2025
Språk
Engelska
Publikation/Tidskrift/Serie
Oxford Intersections
Länkar
Dokumenttyp
Artikel i tidskrift
Förlag
Oxford University Press
Ämne
- Criminology
Nyckelord
- borders
- boundaries
- criminogenic
- transnational organized crime
- drug trafficking
- environmental crime
- scams
- AI
- Para-crime
- Grey criminology
Aktiv
Published