ABSTRACT
At a time of globalization, there is some confusion about the role being played by transnational, national and more local forms of crime control. This chapter discusses critically a proposed solution from Mariana Valverde, who suggests that people study the process by which what she calls 'security projects' go about constructing crime problems according to different scales. The chapter then applies the ideas to two current areas of transnational regulation: the effort to control transnational crime threats, and the increasing use of global social indicators in dealing with social problems. The consequences of globalization for the economic fortunes of countries, cities or parts of them mean that the causes of ordinary crime problems, and not only those perpetrated by transnational criminal organizations, often have little to do with the unit in which they are located. According to Muncie, globalization is 'a combination of macro socio-economic developments, initiatives in international law and processes of policy flow and diffusion'.
