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

• Autore: Andreas Peter <1965->
• Pubblicazione: Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2006
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (348 p.)
• Disciplina: 363.25935
• Soggetto topico: Transnational crime - Prevention - International cooperation; Law enforcement - International cooperation
• Altri autori: NadelmannEthan Avram
• 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
• Titolo autorizzato: Policing the globe
• ISBN: 0-19-987987-7; 1-282-32821-2; 0-19-802500-9; 1-4294-2089-8
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910777635303321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II