This article presents a historical analysis of the intellectual and institutional origins of the
international community's interest in the link between crime and development leading up to
the adoption of the Millennium Development Goals in 2000. Drawing on a combination of
documentary sources and interviews with long-time international crime policy insiders, it
traces this interest back to the United Nations' social defence agenda which emerged in the
aftermath of the Second World War. We situate this agenda in relation to the Western …

… Development as a historical component of the United 435 Nations' crime policy agenda:
From social defence to the Millennium Development Goals … 489 a business crime
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