ABSTRACT
Sociologists who study transnationalization have rightly noted that the most important problem of globalization is how to make it democratically responsive to the needs, hopes, and dreams of the global commonwealth. The transnational condition is inherently criminogenic: that is, it systematically causes crime. The academic criminological literature on transnational crime – including those forms of political crime at least partially denoted by the term 'terrorism' – is rich and varied. The argument of transnational police will be black-and-white world-view results in a double failure. It is a positive failure insofar as the ramping up of policing power has come at the expense of civil liberties and human rights. It is a negative failure insofar as the transnational policing capacity that has been developed is unable to respond to the very real criminological consequences that are part of the downside of globalization.
