Social injustices are predicated upon systemic violence aimed at marginalised and disadvantaged groups. So argues Sharon Hayes in her new book on crime and diversity in global context. From institutional racism and sexism to the impact of foreign aid and war on developing counties, this book identifies and interrogates the ways in which diverse communities are, both locally and globally, systematically disadvantaged and destabilised.

Building on a definition of globalization as the method by which dominant Western cultures infiltrate and exercise power and control over other nations, this books draws on a range of issues in diversity such as age, gender and race as well as pressing contemporary issues in criminology such as state crime, the militarization of police, incarceration, and transgressive criminality, to explore global marginalization and disadvantage.