In search of transnational policing : towards a sociology of global policing / J.W.E. Sheptycki.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Sheptycki, J. W. E., 1960-

Series:

Advances in criminology

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Police.

Physical Description:

xviii, 185 pages ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Aldershot, Hampshire, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, [2002]

Contents:

A Sociology of Global Crime Connections? 4

An Alternative Research Project 5

Defining Policing 6

Defining Transnationalisation 7

Data Sources 10

Mapping the Territory 13

On Theory Building 13

Conclusions Foreshadowed 15

1 Policing the English Channel Region 1968-1996 17

Four Phases of Development in Transborder Policing 18

Phase 1 Laying the Foundations 19

Phase 2 Transnational Policing in the Age of the Telex Machine 30

Phase 3 Transnational Policing and the Politics of Europe 37

Phase 4 Local Transnational Policing 41

2 Policing Routes 46

Communications Nets, Nodes and Relays 48

Intelligence Quantified

A Workload Analysis of the ELU 52

Some Examples of Transnational Policing 54

Information Systems 73

The Routes of Transnational Policing 76

3 The Subculture of Transnational Policing 79

Subculture Revisited 80

The Correlates of Police Subculture in the Knowledge Society 82

The Emerging Character of Transnational Policing 100

Dramatics Personae 103

Summary: the Role Adaptations of Policing Subculture 109

4 Folk Devils and Global Cops 112

Spotlight on TOC 113

A Case Study in the Construction of 'Organised Crime' 114

Knowledge Flows, Filtration and the Sacralisation of Criminal Intelligence 120

Policing Organised and Serious Crime 122

Tunnel Vision 125

Grounded Transnational Policing 129

5 Policing and the Transnational Order 131

Clandestine Markets and the Transnationalisation of Policing 132

The Changing Style of National Policing Architectures 137

The Marketisation of Policing and Insecurity 141

Policing and the Emergent Transnational Order 144

6 Conclusion: Towards a Sociology of Global Policing 147

Crime in the Transnational Network Society 148

Policing the Transnational Network Society 153.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [165]-179) and index.

ISBN:

0754622959

OCLC:

49493194