Transnational Crime, Local Denial
Social Justice Special Issue: Beyond Transnational Crime, Vol. 34, No. 2, pp. 111-124, 2007
21 Pages Posted: 8 Mar 2009
Date Written: June 22, 2007
Abstract
The international market in illicit antiquities is a useful case study of a form of transnational crime. The most significant impact of 'globalisation' on this illicit market appears not to have been in the production of new expeditious illicit transit networks, but on aiding the emergence of a global discourse concerned with the protection of the world's cultural heritage from the more deleterious of the forces of the market. Increasingly this discourse has begun to recognise the failure of state-based controls in source countries, and has begun to explore systemic 'global' solutions to the problem. The research reported here draws attention to one problematic aspect of demand reduction initiatives: the differential responses of market participants to a changing climate of control. The types of denial engendered by legal and moral structural change in the marketplace, and their implications for market regulation, are charted here
Keywords: Environmental Crime, Antiquities, Neutralisation, Denial, Field, Habitus
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