International and Transnational Crime and Justice

International Crime and Justice is an emerging field that covers crime and justice from a global perspective.

This book introduces the nature of international and transnational crimes, theoretical foundations to understanding the relationship between social change and the waxing and waning of the crime opportunity structure, globalization, migration, culture conflicts, and the emerging legal frameworks for their prevention and control. It presents the challenges involved in delivering justice and international cooperative efforts to deter, detect, and respond to international and transnational crimes; and the need for international research and data resources to go beyond anecdote and impressionistic accounts to testing and developing theories to build the discipline that bring tangible improvements to the peace, security and well-being of the globalizing world.

A timely analysis of a complex subject of international crime and justice for students, scholars, policymakers and advocates who strive for the pursuit of justice for millions of victims.

About the Editor

Mangai Natarajan is a professor in the Department of Criminal Justice at John Jay College of Criminal Justice, City University of New York. She is an award-winning policy-oriented researcher who has published widely in international criminal justice. To date she has edited ten books including a special issue on Crime in Developing Countries for Crime Science Journal and authored a monograph, Women Police in a Changing Society: Back Door to Equality (2008). She is the founding director of the International Criminal Justice Major at John Jay.