Crime and Power: Conclusion

Abstract

The final chapter contains a summary of the key power dynamics that underpin the 14 original case studies. We provide some observations about invisibility, politics and power and the methodology of the case study. We make connections with our ‘invisibility’ thesis as well as our newer conceptualisations surrounding spatial typologies of victimisation and harm (Davies et al. 1999, 2014). In the preamble to Part I of the book, we elaborated on intersectionalities and how this framework for organising your thinking might help you to appreciate the ways in which micro, meso/mezzo and macro levels of power overlap in mutually constitutive ways. The crimes of the powerful in Part II variously explored how power is wielded and how power operates when groups of people—corporations, organised crime groups, states and insurgents—who share a common purpose or are part of the same organisation, work together to maintain power and/or make money. In concluding this text we take stock of what this way of organising the book has done in terms of pushing forward our thinking, taking a glimpse into the future where we discuss income inequality, the Global North versus the Global South, environmental injustice and solutions.