Description
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.
About the Author
Ben Bowling is Professor of Criminology & Criminal Justice at King's College London where he served as Acting Dean and Deputy Dean of the Dickson Poon School of Law (2014-16). Prior to joining King's as Lecturer in Law in 1999, Ben was a lecturer at the University of Cambridge Institute of Criminology, Assistant Professor at John Jay College of Criminal Justice (City University of New York) and Senior Research Officer in the Home Office. He has held visiting positions at Fitzwilliam College Cambridge, Humboldt University, University of Paris 2, University of the West Indies, Monash, and the East China University of Political Science and Law. Ben's research examines practical, political and legal problems in policing and the connections between local and global police power. His work exploring themes of fairness, effectiveness and accountability has been published in the Modern Law Review, Criminal Law Review and Theoretical Criminology and in recent books - Policing the Caribbean, Global Policing, Stop & Search: Police Power in Global Context. His most recent book is the 5th edition of the Politics of the Police with James Sheptycki and Robert Reiner (OUP) Ben Bowling submitted written evidence to the Stephen Lawrence Inquiry (1999) and to the Home Affairs Select Committee in 2007 and 2020. Has been an adviser to the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, Equality and Human Rights Commission, Interpol and the United Nations. He was awarded the Radzinowicz Memorial Prize for the best article in the British Journal of Criminology in 1999 and was elected a Fellow the Academy of Social Sciences in 2005. His special research expertise revolves around issues of transnational crime and policing. He has written on a variety of substantive criminological topics including domestic violence, serial killers, money laundering, drugs, public order policing, organized crime, police accountability, intelligence-led policing, witness protection, risk and insecurity. He is currently engaged in research concerning 'guns, crime and social order'.
Reviews
This book is a massively impressive intellectual achievement, by two authors whose earlier work has established them as leading experts on globalisation's impact on policing. Compact, clear, readable yet scholarly, this book brings to fruition their extensive empirical research projects on transnational policing in a highly informative, empirically grounded, sophisticated theoretical synthesis. It is a must-read for anyone in the policing field, around the globe.
-- Robert ReinerThis concise, accessible and clear analysis of the changing relations between police and citizens in a global age is both innovative in its approach and a superb teaching text. Global Policing will serve for many years as the main reference work in the field. -- Katja Franko Aas
This short book certainly takes issue with several comfortable assumptions and whets the appetite for more discussion on the topic. I foresee several doctoral studies being born from this embryonic volume. -- The Criminal Lawyer Journal
Written in a very accessible style, (the discussion regarding Policing and the Social Contract in Chapter 1 is one of the most succinct yet informative pieces I have read on what can be a very complex matter) and from authors with established pedigree within the field, this book will fill in many gaps for readers in this topic, whether they are academics, students, or police practitioners. Despite being a relatively slim volume for a topic of this magnitude (180 pages in total, including indexes etc.), I found it to be both informative and thought provoking throughout... This book is a very useful addition to any police library, not just to enlighten people about what happens at a global level, but how this influences and is, in turn influenced by, policing at the local level. -- Prof. Colin Rogers
Global Policing is a massively impressive academic achievement...It is right at the forefront of, and is one of the most important developments in, work on policing. This book is very informative, empirically grounded, and brings all this to bear in a sophisticated, theoretical analysis.
-- Robert Reiner
This outstanding study emphasizes how global policing represents a vast web of power within which coercion and surveillance are conducted by policing agents, who not only operate with increasing global mobility, but who are also connected by technology, complex institutional links and shared subcultural values. In Global Policing, Bowling and Sheptycki have made an invaluable contribution to debates of policing, as well as to those of global governance. With wide interdisciplinary relevance, this book will lend itself to both the researcher and the student. -- Conor O'Reilly
Book Information
ISBN 9781849200820
Author Ben Bowling
Format Paperback
Page Count 192
Imprint Sage Publications Ltd
Publisher Sage Publications Ltd
Weight(grams) 330g
