ABSTRACT
This chapter addresses the relationship between comparative criminology and an emerging global criminology, as complementary projects. Comparative criminology and criminal justice appears to be expanding within the American university curriculum, with one commentator suggesting that the events of September 11, 2001, are one of the driving forces for any such expanding interest. Any serious effort to address the relationship between a comparative criminology and a global criminology must begin with some invocation of the enduring issue of the meaning of the core term 'crime'. Mainstream, traditional strains of criminology often treat the definition of crime as a non-issue - a given - and then move on to an analysis of different variables in relation to a conventional conception of crime, principally the legalistic notion of a violation of the criminal law. Comparative criminology certainly has much to contribute to our understanding of white collar crime, and its control.
