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Policing the Caribbean: Transnational Security Cooperation in Practice
Author(s): Ben Bowling (Author)
- Publisher: OUP Oxford
- Publication Date: 27 May 2010
- Edition: Illustrated
- Language: English
- Print length: 378 pages
- ISBN-10: 0199577692
- ISBN-13: 9780199577699
Book Description
Transnational policing, one of the most significant recent developments in the security field, has brought about a number of changes in the organisation of criminal law enforcement in the Caribbean and other parts of the world. Drawing on interviews with chief police officers, customs, coastguard, immigration, security, military and government officials,
Policing the Caribbean examines these changes, providing a unique insight into the work of overseas liaison officers from the UK and USA, and their collaboration with local police and security agencies.The first study of transnational policing in the Caribbean, this book assesses the extent to which a restructured transnational security infrastructure has enhanced the safety and wellbeing of the Caribbean islands, and other countries on the shores of the north Atlantic, and asks how we can ensure that the policing beyond boundaries is accountable and good enough to make the world a safer place.
Editorial Reviews
Review
This admirable book is a pioneering examination of the workings of the upper echelons of the policing family of the Commonwealth Caribbean in a comparative fashion. It raises a number of profound questions [providing] much food for thought if little comfort. ―
PETER D FRASER, Trinidad and Tobago ReviewThis book deftly weaves empirical detail with a survey of the academic literature on transnational security actors and is a nearly textbook perfect example of twenty-first century sociology of policing research. ―
James Sheptycki, Policing and SocietyBowling has succeeded in writing the most comprehensive book on policing in the Caribbean yet… The author has, additionally, managed to produce that rarest of creatures – a specialized academic book that is also an immensely enjoyable read. ―
Mary Alice Young, Intelligence and National Security… a valuable resource for graduate and undergraduate stude nts specializing in governance and security, and a particularly useful reference for Caribbean criminal justice scholars and practitioners seeking to improve their understanding of the practice and politics of transnational policing. ―
Carl Williams, The British Journal of Criminology
