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The Potential of Crime to Undermine Australia’s National Security
Authors: Peter Grabosky and John McFarlane
Volume 3, Number 4 (November 2007), pp. 131-150.
Abstract
National security entails more than a country’s ability to withstand military invasion. A wider conception of national security includes the burdens on the state that are imposed as a result of crime. Domestic criminality can weaken a society and its economy, with obvious implications for national security. Even crime that occurs on the other side of the world, whether it entails major financial crime or the cultivation of opium, can have domestic ramifications. So too can crime that occurs in neighbouring nations, whose own security problems may have unfortunate spillover effects. This article explores crime and its impact on Australia’s national security. It observes that a degree of convergence in Australian policing and security institutions has become apparent, and is likely to continue.
About the Authors
Peter Grabosky is a Professor in The Regulatory Institutions Network, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, Australian National University. peter.grabosky@anu.edu.au.
John McFarlane is a Visiting Fellow in the School of Humanities and Social Sciences at the University of New South Wales at the Australian Defence Force Academy. He lectures on transnational crime, intelligence and security issues, corruption, police peace operations, and related topics at ADFA, the ANU, Macquarie University, Victoria University of Wellington and several Defence establishments. He is a former Director of Intelligence in the Australian Federal Police. j.mcfarlane@adfa.edu.au.
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