ABSTRACT
Anarchist criminology is unique among the many criminologies because it grows out of a needs-based political economy of relationship and conception of justice. Its advocates are interested not only in pointing to those persons, groups, organizations, and nation-states that deny people their needs in everyday life but also in fostering social arrangements that alleviate pain and suffering by providing for everyone's needs. This chapter assesses the tremendous rise in transboundary crimes, those committed, for example, by the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund, and other organizations that operate beyond the social control of the United Nations, any single nation-state, or any regulatory organization. It took nearly two decades before crimes by the state, a social harms definition of crime, and needs-based social justice concerns received formal recognition. The chapter discusses a dynamic and innovative challenge for how people might organize individual and cooperative work that will make them more human while not jeopardizing sustenance.
