Global policing

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

In the transitional networked society, police power is no longer constrained by the borders of the nation state. It has globalised. Global Policing shows how security threats have been constructed by powerful actors to justify the creation of a new global policing architecture and how the subculture of policing shapes the world system.

Demonstrating how a theory of global policing is central to understanding global governance, the text explores:

- the ′new security agenda′ focused on serious organised crime and terrorism and how this is transforming policing

- the creation of global organisations such as Interpol, regional entities such as Europol, and national policing agencies with a transnational reach

- the subculture of the ′global cops′, blurring boundaries between police, private security, military and secret intelligence agencies

- the reality of transnational policing on the ground, its effectiveness, legitimacy, accountability and future development.

Written by two leading international experts who bring cutting-edge theoretical debates to life with case studies and examples, Global Policing will prove captivating reading for students and scholars in criminology, criminal justice, international relations, law and sociology.

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

• Abbreviations (p. viii)
• Preface and Acknowledgements (p. xi)
• Introduction (p. 1)
• 1 Theorising global policing (p. 8)
• The problem of global policing (p. 8)
• Policing and social theory (p. 11)
• Policing and the social contract (p. 13)
• Policing and political theory (p. 15)
• Policing and law (p. 17)
• Colonial policing (p. 20)
• Types of transnational policing (p. 22)
• Conclusion: policing an insecure world (p. 27)
• 2 Policing and the transnational-state-system (p. 29)
• The changing morphology of the state (p. 29)
• Jurisdictional sovereignty and functional diversity in policing (p. 32)
• Agenda setting and transnational policing priorities (p. 34)
• Legal discourse and law-making in international police co-operation (p. 38)
• Developments in Europe (p. 42)
• Developments in the United States (p. 46)
• Multi-agency co-operation; the military security and private sectors (p. 49)
• Conclusion: policing the new world order (p. 52)
• 3 The global policing architecture (p. 53)
• Global police agencies (p. 53)
• Regional police agencies (p. 64)
• National policing hubs (p. 68)
• Private transnational policing (p. 71)
• Glocal policing (p. 73)
• Conclusion (p. 76)
• 4 The occupational subcultures of global policing (p. 78)
• Police liaison officers and the transnational space between (p. 78)
• Subcultural theory and policing (p. 81)
• The parameters of policing subculture (p. 84)
• Meet the global cops (p. 87)
• The varied occupational character of global cops (p. 93)
• Global policing, subculture and accountability (p. 94)
• Conclusion: occupational policing subcultures - global thoughts/local acts (p. 99)
• 5 Global policing in practice (p. 101)
• Policing transnational spaces (p. 101)
• Policing border zories (p. 102)
• Policing the oceans (p. 104)
• Policing cyberspace (p. 110)
• Policing mega-events (p. 111)
• Policing transnational flows (p. 113)
• Policing people: migrants, criminals, terrorists and other suspect populations (p. 114)
• Policing drugs and guns (p. 118)
• Policing money (p. 120)
• Policing weak states: where the flows stop (p. 123)
• Conclusion: the consequences of global policing (p. 126)
• 6 Conclusion: the global cops have arrived (p. 128)
• Endnotes (p. 137)
• Name Index (p. 169)
• Subject Index (p. 174)