Besides generating wealth, globalization makes victims,
including victims of new forms of crime. In this edited book of
scholarly essays, international lawyers and criminologists reflect
on the legal challenges posed by these dark sides of globalization.
Examples include transnational organised crime, human trafficking
and corruption, cyber crimes, international terrorism, global
corporate crime and cross-border environmental crimes. The authors
reflect on the limits of domestic systems of justice in providing
protection, empowerment and redress to the victims of these
emerging forms of global insecurity. They argue for the need of
better international or supra-national institutional arrangements
such as legal instruments and actions of the United Nations or
regional organizations such as the European Union.
In part I Jan Van Dijk and Rianne Letschert present an overview
of trends in criminal victimization against the backdrop of
globalization using a unique set of statistical indicators. By
placing this issue in the framework of the human security concept,
the authors draw out its broader political and normative
implications. Theologist Ralf Bodelier explains how modern
communication technologies have heightened sensitivities among the
general public for human insecurities anywhere in the world. In his
view, a new global conscience is in the making that may become the
cornerstone of international solidarity and action. Marc
Groenhuijsen and Rianne Letschert describe the emergence of
national and international legal and institutional arrangements to
offer remedies to victims of crime in an era of globalization.
In part II a selection of experts analyse the specific issues
surrounding the protection and empowerment of victims of different
types of international crimes such as human trafficking, organised
crime/corruption, terrorism, global corporate crime and cross
border environmental crimes. In part III focused attention is given
to the special challenges and opportunities of protecting and
assisting crime victims in cyberspace. Part IV deals with emerging
victim issues in humanitarian law such as the accountability of
private military companies and the implementation of the ambitious
victim provisions in the statute of the International Criminal
Court including the establishment of a global fund for
reparations.
In the final part of the book some of its core authors formulate
their ideas about the international institutional arrangements that
should be put in place to offer justice to the victims of
globalization. A concrete proposal is made for the transformation
of the United Nations 1985 Declaration on the Principles of Justice
for Victims of Crime and Abuse of Power into a full-fledged UN
convention. In the final chapter further proposals are made for the
increased involvement of regional organisations such as the
European Union in the protection of victims of global crime.
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