Transnational policing and sex trafficking in Southeast Europe: policing the imperialist chain

Mounting a vigorous critique on existing approaches to transnational policing, this book lays out an argument situating transnational policing within contemporary transformations of the capitalist state and imperialism, looking at the particular case of regional police cooperation against sex trafficking in Southeast Europe. GEORGIOS PAPANICOLAOU Lecturer in Criminology at Teesside University, UK. He works from a materialist theoretical perspective on the history, organisation and role of the police apparatus, and his current research interests include the politics of transnational policing and the policing of national and transnational illegal markets. INDICE: Acknowledgements - Introduction - The Study of Transnational Policing - Imperialism, the State and the Police - The Global Prohibition Regime onHuman Trafficking - Politics and Policing Sex Trafficking in SE Europe - Policing Sex Trafficking in Greece - Conclusion: The Mirage of Transnational Policing - References - -

• ISBN: 978-0-230-24612-6
• Editorial: Palgrave MacM
• Encuadernacion: Cartoné
• Páginas: 256
• Fecha Publicación: 03/05/2011
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés