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Record Nr.

UNINA9910777635303321

Autore

Andreas Peter <1965->

Titolo

Policing the globe [[electronic resource] ] : criminalization and crime control in international relations / / Peter Andreas and Ethan Nadelmann

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2006

ISBN

0-19-987987-7

1-282-32821-2

0-19-802500-9

1-4294-2089-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (348 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

NadelmannEthan Avram

Disciplina

363.25935

Soggetti

Transnational crime - Prevention - International cooperation

Law enforcement - International cooperation

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 255-318) and index.

Nota di contenuto

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

Sommario/riassunto

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