Policing the globe : criminalization and crime control in international relations

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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 policing, they demonstrate, primarily reflects ambitious efforts by generations of western powers to export their own definitions of "crime," not just for political and economic gain but also in an attempt to promote their own morals to other parts of the world. A thought-provoking analysis of the historical expansion and recent dramatic acceleration of international crime control, Policing the Globe provides a much-needed bridge between criminal justice and international relations on a topic of crucial public importance. … full description

Bibliographic Details

Main Author

Peter Andreas, 1965-

Other Authors

Ethan Avram Nadelmann, 1957-

Document Type

Books

Physical Description

352 s. ; 24 cm

Published

[New York] : Oxford University Press, 2008

Edition

1st iss. as an Oxford University pbk. 2008

Subjects

boj proti kriminalitě > mezinárodní kontext

prosazování práva

mezinárodní spolupráce

monografie

ISBN

978-0-19-508948-6
978-0-19-534195-9