CGC-Researchers Henrik Vigh and David Sausdal publish new article on Para-crime
In their article ”Para-crime: Notes Towards A ’Grey Criminology,’” published in The British Journal of Criminology, Henrik Vigh and David Sausdal explore how contemporary crime operates in grey zone, para-criminal modes—that is, as parasitically entangled within the very flows of technology, trade, finance and governance that define late modernity.
Vigh and Sausdal joins the criminological debate on ‘the crime drop’. This debate has mainly focused on whether people have become more law-abiding or if criminal activities have merely changed in ways that have made it harder for researchers and the criminal justice system to grasp them. They argue that there have been transformations in crime modalities and crime nowadays increasingly adapts, embeds, and exploits the very systems designed to structure and secure social life. With this new approach Vigh and Sausdal emphasize the growing criminogenic conjunction between the lawful and unlawful and lay the foundation for a ‘grey criminology.’
Read more about their insights on Para-crime and Grey Criminology.