Repression and conflict in a globalized society

Abstract

We live in a world that is submitted to deep social and economic transformations. One of its most notorious facets is the globalization of all processes that overcome the old industrial model and tend to a production based in networks. At the same time, the financial market has reached important levels of independence with regard to States and the production system itself. Large-scale delinquency is part of these changes and, in processes of money laundering, it turns into capital supplier of a system that continuously claims it. Thus, the contravention at the local scale acquires new characteristics, since it is interweaved in networks that are integrated in more general dynamics. In such circumstances, repressive policies, which are sometimes thought to create a major sensation of safety, can provoke perverse effects that, on the contrary, increase conflict. In these pages these phenomena will be studied in an intermediate city.