Description |
1 online resource (xiii, 333 pages) |
Physical Medium |
polychrome |
Description |
text file |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 255-318) and index. |
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. |
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. |
Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
Subject |
Transnational crime -- Prevention -- International cooperation.
|
|
Transnational crime. |
|
International cooperation. |
|
Law enforcement -- International cooperation.
|
|
Law enforcement -- International cooperation. |
Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
|
Added Author |
Nadelmann, Ethan Avram.
|
Other Form: |
Print version: Andreas, Peter, 1965- Policing the globe. Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2006 0195089480 (DLC) 2005029995 (OCoLC)62134654 |
ISBN |
9780198025009 (electronic book) |
|
0198025009 (electronic book) |
|
0195089480 (cloth) |
|
9780195089486 |
|