Overview
National borders are permeable to all types of illicit action and contraband goods, whether it is trafficking humans, body parts, digital information, drugs, weapons, or money. Whilst criminals exist in a borderless world where territorial boundaries allow them to manipulate different markets in illicit goods, the authorities who pursue them can remain constrained inside their own jurisdictions. In a new edition of his ground-breaking work, Boister examines how states must cooperate to tackle some of the greatest security threats in this century so far, analyses to what extent vested interests have determined the course of global policy and law enforcement, and illustrates how responding to transnational crime itself becomes a form of international relations which reorders global political power and becomes, at least in part, an end in itself.Arguing that transnational criminal law is currently geared towards suppressing criminal activity, but is not as committed to ensuring justice, Boister suggests that it might be more strongly influenced by individual moral panics and a desire for criminal retribution than an interest in ensuring a proportional response to offences, protection of human rights, and the preservation of the rule of law.
Full Product Details
Author: Neil Boister (Professor of International Law, Professor of International Law, University of Canterbury)
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Imprint: Oxford University Press
Edition: 2nd Revised edition
Dimensions:
Width: 17.60cm
, Height: 3.30cm
, Length: 25.30cm
Weight: 1.066kg
ISBN: 9780198795995
ISBN 10: 0198795998
Pages: 514
Publication Date: 19 April 2018
Audience:
College/higher education
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Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: To order
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Reviews
Neil Boister's An Introduction to Transnational Criminal Law is a great manual both as an overview of criminal law in the globalised world as emerging subject and as a comprehensive collage of various materials and various tools which make transnational criminal law differ from other areas of legal studies and/or transnational criminology. * Anna Sergi, Internet Journal of Criminology * ... a comprehensive introduction to the rapidly developing area of international criminal law ... By reading this stimulating book, the reader, initiated or not in transnational criminal law, has the opportunity to deal with intricate and delicate issues surrounding the expansion of this particular practice in our modern era of globalisation. * A. Skouteri, Revue Hellenique De Droit International * Review from previous edition Throughout the book, Boister engages with serious issues, from the various legality and legitimacy concerns inherent in the way that transnational criminal norms are created, to the significant extent to which the architecture of the system minimizes and sometimes undermines the protection of human rights ... Ultimately the greatest contribution of this book may not simply be the shedding of light on a largely under examined field of law, but highlighting the importance of the examination itself. In this way, Boister has cast down a gauntlet, one that is well worth taking up. * Robert J. Currie, Journal of International Criminal Justice *
Author Information
Professor Neil Boister teaches Criminal Law, Transnational Criminal Law, International Criminal Law, and International Law at the University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand. His principal research interest is the suppression of transnational crime through international law. He has written numerous articles on the subject. Neil Boister works as a consultant for NGOs in the area of the legal regulation of transnational crime and is currently involved in the development of a Protocol on the Illicit Trade in Tobacco. Finally, he is also the author of a number of pieces including The Tokyo International Military Tribunal, A Reappraisal.
