Crafting Transnational Policing

Andrew Goldsmith is Professor of Law and Criminal Justice at Flinders University, Adelaide Australia. He has written extensively on policing and law enforcement matters. Two previous books in this area are Complaints Against the Police: The Trend to External Review (Oxford, 1991) and (with Colleen Lewis) Civilian Oversight of Policing: Governance, Democracy and Human Rights (Hart, 2000). He is currently chief investigator in a project, "Policing the Neighbourhood", which is examining Australia's overseas policing missions in three countries, Timor-Leste, Papua New Guinea, and the Solomon Islands. James Sheptycki is Professor of Criminology at York University, Toronto Canada. He has previously published two edited collections, Issues in Transnational Policing (London, Routledge, 2000) and Transnational and Comparative Criminology (with Ali Wardak, 2004 London: Taylor and Francis). He has also written a research monograph entitled In Search of Transnational Policing (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2003) and was editor of Policing and Society from 1996-2003.

In attempting to make sense of the various manifestations of transnational policing, and their underpinning motivations, this volume is much more than the usual collection of case studies. It progresses beyond the well-trodden path of highlighting the many shortcomings of the global policing project and instead seeks to unpack the enduring appeal of foreign police assistance as a preferred means of strategic intervention...This is a compilation that will be of interest to scholars concerned with transnational policing, global governance, international development, (critical) international relations, and humanitarian assistance, amongst other areas. Conor O'Reilly Law & Society Review Volume 43, Number 1

• Introduction: Crafting Transnational Policing Andrew Goldsmith and James Sheptycki SECTION ONE: SETTING THE SCENE(S) 1. The Constabulary Ethic and the Transnational Condition James Sheptycki 2. Making Sense of Transnational Police-Building: Foreign Assistance in Colombian Policing Andrew Goldsmith, Maria Victoria Llorente and Angela Rivas 3. Locating the Public Interest in Transnational Policing Ian Loader and Neil Walker SECTION TWO: AGENDAS FOR POLICE REFORM 4. Obstacles on the Road to Peace and Justice: The Role of Civilian Police in Peacekeeping Rick Linden, David Last and Christopher Murphy 5. Implementing Police Reforms: The Role of the Transnational Policy Community Otwin Marenin 6. Fostering a Dependency Culture: The Commodification of Community Policing in a Global Marketplace Graham Ellison 7. The Cart before the Horse: Community Oriented Versus Professional Models of International Police Reform Christopher Murphy 8. Managerialist Pathways Toward 'Good Policing': Observations from South Africa Elrena van der Spuy SECTION THREE: REGIONAL AND NATIONAL EXPERIENCES 9. Police Building in the Southwest Pacific - New Directions in Australian Regional Policing Abby McLeod and Sinclair Dinnen 10. Crafting the Governance of Security in Argentina: Engaging with Global Trends Jennifer Wood and Enrique Font 11. Police Use of Force and Transnational Review Processes: The Venezuelan Police under the Inter-American System Christopher Birkbeck Concluding Remarks Andrew Goldsmith and James Sheptycki