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

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Publication details: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2006.Description: xiii, 333 pages ; 25 cmISBN:
  • 0195089480 (cloth)
  • 9780195089486 (cloth)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 363.25/935
LOC classification:
  • HV 6252 A557p 2006
Online resources:
Contents:
The internationalization of crime control Criminalization through global prohibitions European origins of international crime control U.S. origins of international crime control International crime control after the cold war International crime control after September 11 Past, Present, and future trajectories
Summary: Pirates, bandits, and smugglers have bedeviled governments since time immemorial. Politicians and media today obsess over terrorism and trafficking in drugs, arms, people and money. Far less is said or known, however, about the expanding global reach of the police, prosecutors, and agencies like Interpol and Europol charged with targeting transnational crime. 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
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Libro Libro Biblioteca Juan Bosch Biblioteca Juan Bosch Ciencias Sociales Ciencias Sociales (3er. Piso) HV 6252 A557p 2006 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 00000053519

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

The internationalization of crime control
Criminalization through global prohibitions
European origins of international crime control
U.S. origins of international crime control
International crime control after the cold war
International crime control after September 11
Past, Present, and future trajectories

Pirates, bandits, and smugglers have bedeviled governments since time immemorial. Politicians and media today obsess over terrorism and trafficking in drugs, arms, people and money. Far less is said or known, however, about the expanding global reach of the police, prosecutors, and agencies like Interpol and Europol charged with targeting transnational crime. 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

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