Reordering Security: Crossing the Criminology/IR Divide

by Ian Loader (editor), Sarah Percy (Editor)

Traditional security distinctions are being rapidly eroded. Lines drawn between war and crime are blurring with fateful consequences for divisions between militaries and police forces. The assumption that security should be a publicly provided good has been challenged by private security providers, both domestic and international. Security is no longer (if it ever was) divided between what goes on inside one state and what occurs between states. However, our disciplinary tools for examining these security challenges remain resolutely focused on either the domestic or the international. This book makes one of the first attempts to examine security from both perspectives, bringing together, and into much needed conversation, the fields of criminology and international relations. This book was originally published as a special issue of Global Crime.

122 pages, Hardcover

First published January 14, 2015

About the author

Ian Loader graduated with a law degree from the Sheffield University in 1986 and then worked for a year as a law lecturer at Liverpool Polytechnic. He subsequently spent five years in the Faculty of Law at the University of Edinburgh from where he obtained a M.Sc Legal Studies (Criminology) in 1988, and a Ph.D. in 1993. From 1990-1992 he was a lecturer in criminology and jurisprudence in the Faculty. In 1992 he took up a lectureship in the Department of Criminology at Keele University where he remains. He was promoted to a senior lectureship in 1999, and a readership in 2002.

Reviews

[Alejo · Rating 4 out of 5]

This book came out when I was finishing my undergrad studies and finally I could get my hands and eyes on it. Although is a very short book, it's excellent to complement other readings such as Chaos Theory in IR, geopolitical networks and netwars. It's a great start for future studies more atuned to contemporary IR.