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Variably Legal Markets -

Variably Legal Markets

Rethinking Markets and Crime

Letizia Paoli, Nicholas Lord (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover
220 Seiten
2026
Routledge (Verlag)
978-0-367-18613-5 (ISBN)
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This book offers a novel perspective for conceptualising legality in market exchanges. It challenges the conventional binary of “legal” versus “illegal” markets by introducing the concept of variably legal markets - arenas of exchange where legality is conditional, multidimensional, and context-dependent.

Drawing on criminology, law, economics, and regulatory studies, the editors argue that many contemporary markets - such as those involving commercial sex, performance-enhancing drugs, and cryptocurrencies - operate in a blurry middle ground shaped by overlapping legal regimes, inconsistent enforcement, and shifting socio-political norms. To advance this perspective, this collection includes illustrative case studies from experts in this field to reveal how legal status fluctuates across jurisdictions, supply chains, and actors, and how this ambiguity complicates both scholarly analysis and policy interventions. Paoli and Lord call for a more nuanced approach that moves beyond rigid classifications and instead embraces the complexity of real-world market dynamics. This work not only bridges gaps between organised crime and white-collar crime literature but also sets a new agenda for empirical research and regulatory reform.

This collection will be essential reading for students and scholars of criminology, economics, and law. It will also be useful for policymakers and practitioners seeking to understand and govern the messy realities of modern markets.

Letizia Paoli is Professor of Criminology and Chair of the Department of Criminal Law and Criminology at KU Leuven, and a Life Member of Clare Hall, University of Cambridge. Her research focuses on organized crime, law and rule violations in legal markets, and the harms of crime. Nicholas Lord is Professor of Criminology as the University of Manchester, UK. His research focuses on exploring empirically and conceptually the organisation of serious crimes for gain, in particular ‘white-collar crimes’, ‘organised crimes’, illicit financial flows and money laundering, as well as their market contexts.

1. Variably Legal Markets: A New Conceptual Perspective 2. Variably Legal Markets: Rationale and Conceptualization 3. Promoting Factors of Variably Legal Markets 4. Arms Exports Controls: From Variabilities in Compliance to Variably Legal Markets 5. Through the Smoke: Regulation, (Il)Legality, and the Complexity Of Cigarette Markets 6. Commodifying Nature: Environmental Harm and the Legal Ambiguities of Resource Markets 7. The Legal-Illegal Market Spectrum of Gambling: Regulation, Crime, and Market Adaptation 8. Legal and Irregularly Regulated: Global Markets in Collectable Antiquities, Wildlife and Fossils 9. Growing Complexity in the Legal Variability of Cannabis Markets 10. Reflecting on Variably Legal Markets and Forging a New Programme of Research

Erscheint lt. Verlag 1.4.2026
Reihe/Serie Routledge Studies in Crime, Security and Justice
Zusatzinfo 1 Line drawings, black and white; 2 Halftones, black and white; 3 Illustrations, black and white
Verlagsort London
Sprache englisch
Maße 156 x 234 mm
Gewicht 453 g
Themenwelt Recht / Steuern Arbeits- / Sozialrecht Sozialrecht
Recht / Steuern EU / Internationales Recht
Recht / Steuern Strafrecht Kriminologie
Wirtschaft Volkswirtschaftslehre Wirtschaftspolitik
ISBN-10 0-367-18613-6 / 0367186136
ISBN-13 978-0-367-18613-5 / 9780367186135
Zustand Neuware
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