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ABSTRACT
Increasing globalisation increases the difficulty of studying crime (and analogous social injury) exponentially and necessitates new methods and theoretical. The current paper proposes a new analytical framework for studying criminogenic policies created bi- or multilaterally which serves several purposes. First, this fills a major gap in the state crime literature that fails to investigate state crimes where more than one state is criminally responsible. Second, the concept of an international criminogenic policy provides a new avenue for studying multiple participating criminal states and begins to explain how policy can create criminogenic conditions. Lastly, the new analytical framework integrates four disparate, major bodies of literature: (1) state-corporate crime/crimes of the powerful literature; (2) world-systems analysis; (3) social structure of accumulation theory; and (4) the concept of the transnational capitalist class. Taken together, the proposed framework offers a lens forstudying complex crimes via policy formation and its consequences.
Notes
1. See Yeh and Chen (Citation2017) for a detailed analysis of the China–Taiwan relationship. Their study is evidence that studying bilateral trade agreements can enrich the understanding of countries’ relationships.
2. See Kotz (Citation2015, p. 42) for an extended list of the ideas and guiding principles of neoliberalism.
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Daniel Patten
Daniel Patten is an assistant professor of sociology and criminology in the Department of Sociology and Criminology at McMurry University. His most recent publications can be found in Social Justice, Critical Criminology, Crime, Law and Social Change, and Political and Military Sociology. His research areas include crimes of the powerful and human rights.