Internationalization of Crime: the Changing Relationship Between Crime and Development (From Essays on Crime and Development, P 119-133, 1990, Ugljesa Zvekic, ed. -- See NCJ-131440)

• NCJ Number: 131444
• Author(s): L I Shelley
• Date Published: 1990
• Length: 15 pages
• Sale Source: United Nations Interregional Crime and Justice Research Institute (UNICRI)
• Publication Type: Survey (Cross-Cultural)
• Language: English
• Country: Italy

Annotation

During the last decade, crime patterns throughout the world have changed significantly; the increasing interrelationships among the peoples and economies of the world's countries have increased the difficulty of determining the specific impact of socioeconomic development on crime.

Abstract

Nevertheless, development has led to higher crime rates in nearly all societies and has resulted in the emergence of different offenders than before. Thus, females and juveniles are increasingly involved in crime, particularly as industrialization has increased. The increasing mobility of the world's population and the growing communications and financial links among different countries are likely to continue and to change the nature of criminality. The international growth of drug crime is a major example of the significant changes in criminality and is unlikely to decline in the future. Trends in the relationship between the United States and the drug-producing countries of the developing world illustrate the complex and changing relationship between crime and development. Finally, crime is not merely a symptom of the development process; instead, it may prove to be an obstacle to it. 17 reference notes