This collection of essays and research is for advanced students, professionals, and scholars in policing studies. The book hopes to support the emerging field of global policing studies and the social analysis of global policing. The book’s international contributors include experts in criminology, law, justice studies, police studies, development, and political science. The first part of the book looks at lenses through which to examine global policing, such as political theory, police history, and the psychology of race. The second section considers issues of social and political order, such as policing and human rights and policing and urban liberalism. The third section examines legacies in a global perspective, with material on policing after colonialism and dictatorship, policing after state socialism, and the legacy of police opposition to the civil rights movement in America. The final section of the book explores problems and issues including transnational terrorism, police in armed conflict, and the market for global policing. Annotation ©2016 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR (protoview.com)
Going beyond the confines of police sociology and criminology, this handbook brings together global scholars from a wide range of disciplines and jurisdictions to engage with the instrumental aims of police activity, as well as with the organizations, institutions and sets of practices that comprise ‘policing’
The SAGE Handbook of Global Policing examines and critically retraces the field of policing studies by posing and exploring a series of fundamental questions to do with the concept and institutions of policing and their relation to social and political life in today's globalized world. The volume is structured in the following four parts: Part One: Lenses Part Two: Social and Political Order Part Three: Legacies Part Four: Problems and Problematics.By bringing new lines of vision and new voices to the social analysis of policing, and by clearly demonstrating why policing matters, the Handbook will be an essential tool for anyone in the field.