Book Review: Findlay, M.(2008). Governing Through Globalised Crime: Futures for International Criminal Justice. Devon, UK: Willan Publishing, xx, 240 pp

Findlay sets out to discern the degree to which crime, especially international crime, is a tool ofgovernance, as opposed to a necessary evil that governments have to contend with. This is not,therefore, a book about the substantive elements of international criminal law, nor a treatiseabout legislative drafting in this field. The author suggests that what modern societies and theirlegislatures classify as crime are not necessarily more harmful than other activities for which crimi-nal labeling reserves a less severe characterization. Terrorism certainly fits this mould, as does cor-ruption and organized crime in certain circumstances. These criminal activities have transgressedtraditional borders and have now assumed a more transnational character, and thus the dangers posedas a result are no longer confined to a single community, but multiple communities. These are theso-called global communities. Findlay’s main contention is that Western governments assert controlin this emerging era of globalization by highlighting the risks posed by these new transnationalthreats.