Policing the Globe (text only) by P. Andreas,E. Nadelmann

by E. Nadelmann P. Andreas

Policing the Criminalization and Crime Control in International Relations (Law in India Series Lis) [Paperback]Peter Andreas (Author) , Ethan Nadelmann (Author)

Genres: Nonfiction, Crime, International Relations

Paperback

First published August 1, 2006

Reviews

[DoctorM · Rating 4 out of 5]

A good, well-researched guide to the growth of transnational crime control and international police cooperation over the last hundred years. Andreas presents a clear description of the development of extradition regimes and both bilateral and multilateral efforts (via organisations like Europol) to combat transnational crime. Andreas makes a clear point--- while some activities (e.g., smuggling or piracy) have traditionally been regarded as crimes extending past borders, the vast growth in transnational crime in the last fifty years is in no small part a result of defining more and more cross-border activities as crimes--- e.g. money laundering ---as part of the US-led "War on Drugs". Andreas argues that international attitudes toward criminalisation and crime control have been shaped to a large extent by American attitudes and American security needs and interests. Just as the EU has enforced a growing uniformity of criminal law and practice within the new Europe, it has been the US that has largely set the terms of what transnational crime is and how it is dealt with. Andreas presents a clear description of how police agencies cooperate, but devotes too little time to the far more intriguing issue of how effective transnational crime control efforts have been, and whether hard-line US attitudes toward control of crime have distorted a consideration of whether some activities should be criminalised.