CRIMINOLOGY NEEDS TO MOVE BEYOND NATION STATE

Criminology Needs to Move Beyond Nation State



Criminology Needs to Move Beyond Nation

Introduction

This study has been undertaken to debate over the argument about why criminology needs to move beyond the nations. The criminology is the vast term which does not only include the study of crime but it also covers the psychological causes which induce the perpetrators to commit crimes, modes of criminal investigation, and the efficacy of correction or punishment etc. The criminology needs to move beyond the nation is the most important criticism and debating issue around the criminological perspectives. The study attempts to debate over the criminology that has been advanced largely since the past thirty to forty years. The study will be focusing upon the concept of crime, process of criminalization and the corrective measures or punishments taken by the criminal justice system to address this globally rising issue which has enticed the entire world with its threatening impacts. This is because, criminology is not the nationwide issue but it is worldwide issue which needs a proper attention to exterminate it from its very roots.

The violence and the criminalities have significantly been escalated since the last decade. The political, social, and behavioral sciences have investigated a lot in producing the different techniques with the intention to determine the underlying causes of such violent manifestations and global approach. However, still there is no sufficient policies or measures has been developed to influence the level of criminology at the interstate, domestic level or even at the global level to dampen the impact of ever rising rate of crimes through the unified policy and the corrective measures (Rothe et al., 2010).

Discussion

The criminology has achieved a solid growth in the last few decades beyond the nations and now it has internationally spread over the world. However, the international criminal law (ICL) continues to lag behind the requirements of the international level to address the crime rate and provide the international communities with the goals of peace, safety, protection and justice of human rights. This is primarily because, international criminal law has almost inevitable associations with the state's economic, strategic and political interests that have drastically hindered the development of the ICL (Bissiouni, 2000). Furthermore, the international law attempts to focus on the state actors and their violent social interactions that play a vital role in the formulation of aberrant activities or conducts within the states as well as outside the state structure. The perpetrators involved in both of the cases have the similar attributes within their personalities and have the similar intention to either produce significant human harm or the material harm (Hillyard et al., 2004). Such criminals are difficult to be addressed or dealt through the legal as well as social mechanisms. These cases have to be dealt under the international humanitarian law norms where the combatants are engaged in the criminal conducts that are considered as the organized crimes as they are committed on the international levels (Rothe et ...