Crimilegal Orders, Governance and Armed Conflict

Comprehensively laying out the concept of crimilegality , this book presents a novel perspective on the relationship between what is conventionally termed organised crime and political order in the contemporary developing world. In hybrid crimilegal orders the moral, normative and social boundaries between legality and illegality-criminality are blurred, and through the violation of the official law, the illegal-criminal sphere of social life becomes legitimate and morally acceptable, while the legal turns illegitimate and immoral. Several examples of crimilegality and crimilegal governance in Colombia and Nigeria, including in relation to armed conflict termination, are used to illustrate these complex processes.

1. Introduction. - 2. Crimilegal Order: What' s Behind a Term? . - 3. Mobbed-Up, Corrupt or Crimilegal Orders? . - 4. Instances of Crimilegality in Colombia and Nigeria. - 5. Governance and Violence in Crimilegal Orders. - 6. Overcoming Armed Conflict in Crimilegal Orders. - 7. By Way of Conclusion: Taking the Research on Crimilegality Forward.