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British Journal of Criminology Advance Access published online on December 6, 2007
British Journal of Criminology, doi:10.1093/bjc/azm068
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The British Journal of Criminology 0:azm068 (2007)
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GLOBALIZATION, CONDUCT NORMS AND ‘CULTURE CONFLICT’

Perceptions of Violence and Crime in an Ethnic Albanian Context1

Jana Arsovska and Philippe Verduyn2


  Abstract

The paper examines whether violence in contemporary Albania is a structured phenomenon linked to Albanian customary laws, such as the Kanun of Lek Dukagjini, or whether it is a product of social confusion and ‘culture conflict’. It argues that the expansion of Western legal norms in the Albanian territories has caused a ‘culture conflict’ within the society, which has subsequently led to an increase in crime. The conclusions drawn are based on a cross-national survey with ethnic Albanian respondents from Albania, Kosovo and Macedonia, carried out during 2006.

1 The research was supported by a grant from the CERGE-EI Foundation under a programme of the Global Development Network. The authors would like to thank Prof. Teuta Starova (Albanian Center for Sociological Research), Prof. Haki Demolli (Kosovo Law Center) and Borbala Fellegi (ELTE University—Hungary) for their valuable contributions in this project.

2 Jana Arsovska is a researcher at Catholic University Leuven (Institute of Criminal Law) in Belgium, working on the role of cultural codes in the rise of Albanian organized crime groups. Philippe Verduyn is a researcher at Catholic University Leuven (Research Group on Quantitative and Personality Psychology) who studies time-related characteristics of emotions.


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