Globalisation of Neo-Liberal Capitalism in the Criminological Perspective

Abstract

Neo-liberal globalisation has created a situation which is not only a crisis, but a rather catastrophic situation (and imbued with corruption, violence, plunder, intimidation, blackmail and deception). The globalisation has been accompanied by its own sort of war, officially declared on Islamic terrorists, ordinary criminals, and "lazy bon vivants". In fact, there is another fight going on, the fight between the rich and the poor, between creditors and debtors, between capitalists and workers, and between elites and plebeian masses. Consequently, criminology cannot be occupied solely by studying crime milled by class-biased criminal justice apparatus. It has to also critically confront the totalitarian capitalist system, and its repressive and ideological mechanisms that extend its tormenting agony.