Glimmers of Cosmopolitan Criminology

Abstract

The sheer international variability of crime can make international criminology more interesting and revealing than national criminologies. Crime is a phenomenon that cascades from hot-spot to hot-spot, often across borders, giving it some transnational characteristics and some regional clustering. This article makes a case that sometimes international levers are more potent for national crime prevention than national ones. An inference is that criminology must savour a more cosmopolitan imaginary. Violence and corporate crime are used to discuss the methodological and policy challenges that can be cracked to open up glimmers of hope through international criminology. Show more