Policing the globe : criminalization and crime control in international relations / Peter Andreas and Ethan Nadelmann.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Andreas, Peter, 1965-

Contributor:

Nadelmann, Ethan Avram.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Transnational crime--Prevention--International cooperation.

Transnational crime.

Law enforcement--International cooperation.

Law enforcement.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (348 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2006.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In this illuminating history that spans past campaigns against piracy and slavery to contemporary campaigns against drug trafficking and transnational terrorism, Peter Andreas and Ethan Nadelmann explain how and why prohibitions and policing practices increasingly extend across borders. The internationalization of crime control is too often described as simply a natural and predictable response to the growth of transnational crime in an age of globalization. Andreas and Nadelmann challenge this conventional view as at best incomplete and at worst misleading. The internationalization of policin

Contents:

CONTENTS; INTRODUCTION: The Internationalization of Crime Control; ONE: Criminalization through Global Prohibitions; TWO: European Origins of International Crime Control; THREE: U.S. Origins of International Crime Control; FOUR: International Crime Control after the Cold War; FIVE: International Crime Control after September 11; SIX: Past, Present, and Future Trajectories; Notes; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 255-318) and index.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

0-19-987987-7

1-282-32821-2

0-19-802500-9

1-4294-2089-8

OCLC:

609830193