Variably Legal Markets
Rethinking Markets and Crime
Series: Routledge Studies in Crime, Security and Justice;
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Product details:
- Edition number 1
- Publisher Routledge
- Date of Publication 31 March 2026
- ISBN 9780367186135
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages198 pages
- Size 234x156 mm
- Weight 530 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 3 Illustrations, black & white; 2 Halftones, black & white; 1 Line drawings, black & white 700
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Short description:
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.
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This book offers a novel perspective for conceptualizing 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 realworld market dynamics. This work not only bridges gaps between organized 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.
MoreTable of Contents:
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
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