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Author Andreas, Peter, 1965-

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

Publication Info. Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2006.

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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.
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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