The method of analysis is through the uses of cases. They refer to the works of a multitude of scholars, who have themselves studied particular events of violence, corruption, and crime within the post-colony. The first stem is showing the presence of judicial elements amidst the site of violation. Presences could be through opportunities made by or encouraged by legal parties, the deliberate using of legal means for dubious ends or the opportune suspension of particular legalities for wholly different reasons creating disorder in its wake. The point fundamentally made is is that lawlessness bares the figure prints of lawful procedure.
The argument is scaled up when illegal activities are analyzed in tandem with particular post-colony histories. It is shown, again through cases, that economic frameworks of privatized opportunity and systemic disadvantage encourage markets of illegal activity, particular to the larger socio-economic labor patterns of each jurisdictional area. Adding to this the conclusion of the earlier point, it is shown that global economic calls for further dispersed control and the strengthening of the free market. In post-colonial states, that bears the imprint of imperial economic suzerainty, often have non-centralized governments that are primed for the promotion of young economies. Such a setting is exacerbated global market trends, making premium sites of opportunity both from a top-down and bottom-up point of view. The
The final leg of the argument rests on a linking of legal structure to economic opportunity. The argument is slick here, drawing more from the ideas of economic and political thinkers rather than a post-colonial case study. Legal activity is quickly shown to be an act of objectifying and they're creating the opportunity of sovereignty. Likewise, the trend of promoting privatized distributed power is an act of diffusing of an oligarchic distribution of power into a more democratically arranged one. Between the two principles, processes are set into motion where ruthless economic exploitation is made into a cultural industry and control of the same is weakened to the point of being exploited by the same culture.
