ABSTRACT
This chapter defines ‘crimes of urbanisation’, and outlines the importance of this definition for crimes of the powerful scholarship. In particular, the process of urbanisation is unpacked, drawing on dialectical traditions spanning geography, urban studies and political economy. Attention is then given to how this process may become a site for deviant state–corporate conduct. The types of activity that might fall within this field of inquiry are set out, drawing on research conducted in Africa, Asia, Europe and the Americas. The chapter concludes by introducing the four-year study on which this book is based.
