A note on teaching “international”

Abstract

Having been awakened to the phenomenon of globalization of crime and justice, some educational administrators in our field have decided on the addition of a course or seminar on Comparative Criminal Justice or International Criminal Justice. But all too frequently, such a course is little more than a palliative, a glance at how things are done in Canada or England, or perhaps Japan or Germany. That is not the way I would propose to deal with the globalization phenomenon--although it is superior to the isolationism that has marked our curricula in the past. Rather, I would propose, as afirst, that undergraduate students of criminal be coum seled to take preparatory or complementary courses in geography, geopolitics, world history, and relations. Second, I would propose that specific courses be developed for both the and criminal curricula. By comparative criminology we generally understand the application of the method in the science of criminology, internationally and cross-culturally. This study includes comparisons of crime and of responses thereto. A course on comparative criminal justice focuses on the mechanisms employed in different cultures to deal with crime control. There may be room for a third basic course in the curriculum, namely one focusing on as well as crime. By transnational crime we mean an identifiable category of (criminologically, not legally) defined criminality that affects more than one country. A recent U.N. report has clearly identified 19 of these categories including money laundering, terrorist activities, theft of art and cultural objects, theft of intellectual property, illicit trafficking in arms, aircraft hijacking, sea piracy, land hijacking, insurance fraud, computer crime, environmental crime, trafficking in persons, trade in human body parts, illicit drug trafficking, fraudulent bankruptcy, infiltration of legal business, corruption and bribery of officials, and others (United Nations 1995). The study of national and mechanisms to deal with criminality is particularly important. By international crime we mean approximately 20 groups of crimes defined and recognized by law (whether or not also included in national law), such as aggression, genocide, apartheid, systematic or mass

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