Overview
- Provides innovation in terms of its conceptual-theoretical contribution to the relationship between criminality, governance and armed conflict
- Based on in-depth field work in Colombia and rich primary and secondary source material from a range of other country cases
- Has multi-disciplinary appeal and speaks to both academic audiences from a number of social science disciplines and a range of specialized practitioners, including law enforcement professionals and specialized bilateral and multilateral organizations
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About this book
Comprehensively laying out the concept of crimilegality, this book presents a novel perspective on the relationship between what is conventionally termed organised crime and political order in the contemporary developing world. In hybrid crimilegal orders the moral, normative and social boundaries between legality and illegality-criminality are blurred, and through the violation of the official law, the illegal-criminal sphere of social life becomes legitimate and morally acceptable, while the legal turns illegitimate and immoral. Several examples of crimilegality and crimilegal governance in Colombia and Nigeria, including in relation to armed conflict termination, are used to illustrate these complex processes.
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Table of contents (7 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Markus Schultze-Kraft is Associate Professor in the Department of Political Studies at Universidad Icesi, Colombia.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Crimilegal Orders, Governance and Armed Conflict
Authors: Markus Schultze-Kraft
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-03442-9
Publisher: Palgrave Pivot Cham
eBook Packages: Political Science and International Studies, Political Science and International Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-03441-2Published: 22 January 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-03442-9Published: 12 December 2018
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIX, 201
Number of Illustrations: 10 b/w illustrations
Topics: Governance and Government, Conflict Studies, Terrorism and Political Violence, Comparative Politics, Organized Crime, Violence and Crime