Blinded by the Light: The Interweaving of (Organised) Crime, White Collar Crime, State Crime and Terrorism

Abstract

From the ‘Technopoly’, I now return to more mundane matters: rule breaking, crime and other assorted forms of deviance. The governance of policing and security is all about national security, public order and the prevention and repression of crime. My argument in this chapter is my criticism of the ‘one-sided’ analyses of crime by the multitude of different actors — both operational actors and certainly those in criminology. Only by combining crime analyses from the public police, regulators, intelligence and security services and private security can the hundreds of crime pieces from the big jigsaw puzzle make some sense.