New Perspectives on the Structure of Transnational Criminal Justice

Professor Neil Boister, Ph.D (1998), is Professor of Criminal law at the University of Canterbury in Christchurch New Zealand. Author of a range of texts on transnational criminal law including An Introduction to Transnational Criminal Law (Second edition forthcoming OUP, 2018) in 2014 he was awarded the Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel Prize from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation in Germany for his work on transnational criminal law. Mikkel Jarle Christensen is an associate professor in the Danish National Research Foundation’s Centre of Excellence for International Courts (iCourts) hosted by the Faculty of Law, University of Copenhagen. He is also senior researcher in the Global Justice Lab at the Munk School of Global Affairs, University of Toronto. He has published on the sociology of law in the fields of policing, international and transnational criminal justice and has recently co-edited an innovative volume that links these fields: International Practices of Criminal Law: Social and Legal Perspectives (with Ron Levi, Routledge 2017).

• New Perspectives on the Structure of Transnational Criminal JusticeMikkel Jarle Christensen and Neil BoisterTransnational Criminal Justice: Its Politics and PracticesI Politics, Law and Social DynamicsII Structure of the Special IssueThe ‘Bad Global Citizen’, ‘Naked’, in the ‘Transnational Penal Space’Neil BoisterAbstractKeywordsIntroductionI The Transnational Criminal as a ‘Bad Global Citizen’II The Mechanics of Creating a Transnational Penal SpaceIII The ‘Bad Global Citizen’, ‘Naked’ in the ‘Transnational Penal Space’IV ‘Global Citizenship’ for ‘Bad Global Citizens’Conclusion: Why Bother with the ‘Bad Global Citizen’?Treaty Monitoring and Compliance in the Field of Transnational Criminal LawCecily RoseAbstractKeywordsI IntroductionII The Relative Paucity of Treaty Monitoring in the Transnational Criminal Law FieldIII Possible Explanations for the Relative Absence of Treaty Monitoring in the Field of Transnational Criminal LawIV Some Concluding Observations on the Implications of Sparse Monitoring of Transnational Criminal Law TreatiesTransnational Organization, Transnational Law and the Ambiguity of Interpol in a World Ruled with LawJames SheptyckiAbstractKeywordsIntroductionI The Constitution of InterpolII The Commission for the Control of Interpol’s FilesIII Interpol Organization and the Red Notice SystemIV Conclusion: Transnational Legal Orders as Transnational Rule with LawAcknowledgementsThe Social Structure of Transnational Criminal Justice: A Cluster of Spaces beyond National BordersMikkel Jarle ChristensenAbstractKeywordsIntroductionI Theoretical Perspective and Empirical MaterialII From International to Transnational Criminal Law and JusticeIII The Social Structure of Transnational Criminal JusticeIV The Structure and Effects of the Four Spaces of PracticeConcluding Remarks