Peacebuilding and white-collar crime in post-war natural resource sectors. Issue 1 (2nd January 2018)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Le Billon, Philippe
• Is Part Of: Third world thematics. Volume 3:Issue 1(2018)
• Page Start: 80
• Page End: 97
• Publication Date: 2018-01-02
• Subjects: War economies -- criminalisation -- white-collar crime -- land grabs; Developing countries -- Economic conditions -- Periodicals; Developing countries -- Politics and government -- Periodicals; Globalization -- Periodicals; 338.90091724
• DOI: 10.1080/23802014.2017.1365626
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 2379-9978

Abstract

ABSTRACT: Post-war situations can present an opportune context for white-collar crime in resource sectors – including corruption, tax evasion, land dispossession, and illegal resource exploitation. This paper investigates various forms of white-collar crime and associated human rights abuses, and points at biased processes of 'criminalization'. Whereas white-collar crime is frequently legitimated under the guise of reconstruction and economic growth strategies, the victims of corruption and resource grabs often become 'criminalised'. Such selective forms of criminalisation reflect a securitisation of resource sectors characterised by repressive forms of resource enclosures and increased socio-economic inequalities; putting resource-related white-collar crime at the core of negative peace economies.