Crime and Technology: Printed Book
Crime and Technology: Printed Book
Crime and Technology: Printed Book
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Crime and Technology
New Frontiers for Regulation, Law Enforcement and Research
Guido Rossi As Chairman of ISPAC, I want to thank all the contributors to this book that
originates from the International Conference on Crime and Technology. This could be
the end of my presentation if I did not feel uneasy not considering one of the problems
I believe to be pivotal in the relationship between crime and technology. I shall also
consider that the same relationship exists between terror and globalization, while
globalization is stemming from technology and terror from crime. Transnational terrorism
is today made possible by the vast array of communication tools. But the paradox is that
if globalization facilitates terrorist violence, the fight against this war without borders is
potentially disastrous for both economic development and globalization. Antiterrorist
measures restrict mobility and financial flows, while new terrorist attacks could lead the
way for an antiglobalist reaction. But the global society has yet to agree on a common
definition of terrorism or on a common policy against it. The ordinary traditional criminal
law is still depending on the sovereignty of national states, while international criminal
justice is only a spotty and contested last resort. The fragmented and weak international
2004, XIV, 142 p. institutions and underdeveloped civil societies have no power to enforce criminal justice
against t- rorism. At the same time, the states that are its targets have no interest in
applying the laws of war (the Geneva Conventions) to their fight against terrorists.
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