Comprehensively laying out the concept of
crimilegality
, this book presents a novel perspective on the relationship between what is conventionally termed organised crime and political order in the contemporary developing world. In hybrid
crimilegal
orders the moral, normative and social boundaries between legality and illegality-criminality are blurred, and through the violation of the official law, the illegal-criminal sphere of social life becomes legitimate and morally acceptable, while the legal turns illegitimate and immoral. Several examples of
and
governance in Colombia and Nigeria, including in relation to armed conflict termination, are used to illustrate these complex processes.