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605 Annals Am. Acad. Pol. & Soc. Sci. 6 (2006)

handle is hein.cow/anamacp0605 and id is 1 raw text is: Democracy, Crime, and Justice By SUSANNE KARSTEDT and GARY LAFREE The connection between democracy and criminal justice is so fundamental as to be self-evident: the rule of law guarantees due process, and the observation of human rights is an integral part of the emergence and institu- tionalization of democracy. Indeed, most mea- sures of the strength of democracy include an index of criminal justice and due process guar- antees. By contrast, the connection between democracy and crime is less obvious and has only recently begun to attract the attention of scholars from different disciplines, notably political scientists. However, the focus of polit- ical science has been less on crime than on violence more generally. Thus, recent political science perspectives on violence and democ- racy range from the assumption that violence is anathema to the spirit and substance (of democracy) (Keane 2004, 1) to accusations that violent democracy (Ross 2004) is the typical connection. Mann's (2005) empirically based analysis of murderous ethnic cleansing as the dark side of democracy can be seen as occupying the middle ground between these Susanne Karstedt has a chair of criminology and is direc- tor of the Centre for Criminological Research in the Research Institute for Law, Politics and justice at Keele University, United Kingdom. She also teaches at the International Institute of the Sociology o>f Law in Onati, Spain. Her main research interests include (I) cross- national and cross-cultural research on violence and cor- rup>tion; (2) cross-national research on moral economies and middle-class crime; (3) emotions, crime, and justice; and (4) public opinion on transitional justice. Gary LaFree is director of the National Center for the Study 'f Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism (START) at the University of Maryland as well as a professor in the Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice and a founding member of the Democracy Collaborative. Much of his recent research has lealt with national and inter- national macro-level crimi t/ds. For the past few years, he has been working on a variet y of projects related to the development and analysis of a large new global terrorism database. He will serve from 2005 to 2006 as president of the American Society o f Criminology. DOT: 10.1177/0002716206288230 ANNALS, AAPSS, 605, May 2006 6

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