La transnationalisation du champ pénal : réflexions sur les mutations du crime et du contrôle

Abstract

Transnationalization of the Penal Field : Some Considerations on Change in Crime and Control. Recent past years have witnessed crime sliding from the local into the global sphere. From this standpoint, the world conceived as a hierarchical network appears as an old-fashioned model of social control. Organized crime is replaced by transnational crime. To understand the processes of such a criminality, it is necessary to deal with them in terms of « globalized localisms » and « localized globalisms ». In such a context, the full meaning of the increasing repression in public policies comes into view e.g. in the fight against drug trafficking. In the same way, it becomes easier to discern why and how supranational institutions and transnational processes of control emerge. Such a repressive System of control based on « security » is presently at work within the European Union and attests to an increasing security ideology.