About the Book
In the transitional networked society, police power is no longer constrained by the borders of the nation state. It has globalised. Global Policing shows how security threats have been constructed by powerful actors to justify the creation of a new global policing architecture and how the subculture of policing shapes the world system.
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.
Table of Contents:
Theorising Global Policing
The Problems of Global Policing
Policing Social Theory
Policing and the Social Contract
Policing and Political Theory
Policing and Law
Colonial Policing
Types of Transnational Policing
Conclusion: Policing an Insecure World
Policing and the Transnational-State-System
The Changing Morphology of the State
Jurisdictional Sovereignty and Functional Diversity in Policing
Agenda Setting and Transnational Policing Priorities
Legal Discourse and Law-Making in International Police Co-Operation
Developments in Europe
Developments in the United States
Multi-Agency Co-Operation: The Military, Security and Private Sectors
Conclusion: Policing the New World Order
The Global Policing Architecture
Global Police Agencies
Regional Police Agencies
National Policing Hubs
Private Transnational Policing
Global Policing
Conclusion
The Occupational Subcultures of Global Policing
Police Liaison Officers and the Transnational Space Between
Subcultural Theory and Policing
The Parameters of Policing Subculture
Meet the Global Cops
The Varied Occupational Character of Global Cops
Global Policing, Subculture and Accountability
Conclusion: Occupational Policing Subcultures - Global Thoughts/Local Acts
Global Policing in Practice
Policing Transnational Spaces
Policing Border Zones
Policing the Oceans
Policing Cyberspace
Policing Mega-Events
Policing Transnational Flows
Policing People: Migrants, Criminals, Terrorists and other Suspect Populations
Policing Drugs and Guns
Policing Money
Conclusion: The Consequences of Global Policing
Conclusion: The Global Cops Have Arrived
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’.
Review :
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.
This 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
