Unraveling the Crime-Development Nexus offers the first criminological account of the relationship between international development, crime and security in nearly thirty-five years.

Jarrett Blaustein is associate professor in the School of Regulation and Global Governance at the Australian National University.

Tom Chodor is a lecturer in International Relations, also at Monash University in Australia.

Nathan W. Pino is professor of Sociology at Texas State University in the United States.

Introduction

Chapter 1: Is Crime a Development Issue?

Chapter 2: Theorizing Global Crime Governance

Chapter 3: Historicizing the Crime-Development Nexus

Chapter 4: Development and Social Defense

Chapter 5: International Crime in the Crisis Decades

Chapter 6: Securing the Global Capitalist Economy

Chapter 7: Re-Constructing the Crime-Development Nexus

Chapter 8: Global Crime Governance, Rule of Law, and the Sustainable Development Goals

Conclusion: Reimagining the Crime-Development Nexus