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POLICING
WORLD SOCIETY
Historical
Foundations of International Police Cooperation
by
deflem@sc.edu
Oxford
University Press, November 2002 (paperback 2004, reprint 2005)
ISBN
0-19-925962-3 (cloth) / 0-19-927471-1 (paperback) 301 pages
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"Mathieu
Deflem's Policing World Society is a highly scholarly and groundbreaking
book on a subject largely neglected by social science --the globalization
of police work. The book is impressive along various dimensions, including
its resourceful historical research and analysis, scientific rigor, theoretical
sophistication, and rich and illuminating empirical detail. Without a doubt
it will be the premier work on the subject for many years to come."
—Donald
Black, University Professor of the Social Sciences
at
the University of Virginia.
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ABSTRACT
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This book offers
a sociological analysis of the history of international police cooperation
from the middle of the 19th century until the end of World War II. Emphasis
is on international cooperation strategies involving police institutions
from the United States and Germany as well as other European countries.
The study provides a rich empirical account of many dimensions in the history
of international policing, including the role of police in the 19th-century
development towards national independence; international police aspects
involved with the outbreak of World War I and the Bolshevik Revolution;
the early history of international police organizations, including Interpol;
the international implications of the Nazification of the German police;
and the rise on the international scene of the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
To account for these historical transformations, this book develops an
innovative theoretical model of bureaucratization based on the sociology
of Max Weber and theories of globalization. It is argued that international
police cooperation is enabled through a historical process of police agencies
gradually claiming and gaining a position of relative independence from
the governments of their respective states. Alongside of these developments
towards cooperation, nationally variable concerns of participating police
remain paradoxically paramount.
This book is written from a historical-sociological
viewpoint but will appeal to scholars from a broad variety of disciplines,
particularly criminologists and criminal justice scholars, sociolegal scholars,
historians, political scientists, international studies and globalization
scholars, as well as students and practitioners of criminal and public
policy.
CONTENTS
Introduction:
Historical Foundations of International Police Cooperation
1. The Rise of International Policing
[see related article]
2. The Expansion of World Society
3. Towards an International Criminal
Police [see related article]
4. War and Revolution
5. The Origins of Interpol [see
related article]
6. Policing Across National Borders
7. On the Road to War: The Control
of World Policing [see related article]
8. Policing the Peace and the Restoration
of World Order
Conclusion: Patterns and Dynamics
of International Police
Appendix 1: A Chronology of International
Police
Appendix 2: A German-US Dialogue on
Police and Criminal Justice
Appendix 3: Archives and Libraries
The
Publisher's Pullout: Policing World Society
- A four-page excerpt from my book published in Crime & Justice
International 19(76):23-26 (2003).
My book was the subject of two discussion
symposia:
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BOOK
REVIEWS |
Online copies
of the reviews appear in separate windows. Click&close.
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American
Journal of Sociology, Vol. 113(3), pp. 901-903, November 2007. Reviewed
by Peter Manning. The
book is an impressive model of careful scholarship based upon original
sources in several languages, displays sound theorizing, and presents well-chosen
examples. It is a work that should be basic reading for scholars in social
science, most particularly those in police studies.
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Contemporary
Sociology, Vol. 33(5), pp. 597-599, September 2004. Reviewed by Kirk
Miller. Deflem's book...
is ambitious, his theoretical contributions insightful, and his analysis
adroit... [T]his work is a must-read for sociologists of social control
or researchers conducting police studies with any sort of international
focus.
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Social
Forces, Vol. 82(4), pp. 1655-1657, June 2004. Reviewed by Joachim J.
Savelsberg. Policing
World Society is a very scholarly and sociological, and thus fascinating,
book... Deflem's book is a scholarly jewel in a sea of literature on policing...
In short, Deflem's book should find a large readership.
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Theoretical
Criminology, Vol. 8(1), pp. 109-111, February 2004. Review by Malcolm
Anderson. One feature
which contributes to the originality of the book is the special attention
paid to developments in Germany and the United States, comparisons between
them and the growing interconnections between the two systems... Everyone
interested in the field of international police cooperation should read
this book.
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Law
& Politics Book Review, Vol. 13(8), August 2003. Reviewed by András
Sajó, Legal Studies, Central European University, Budapest. Mathieu
Deflem’s book on the Historical Foundations of International Police Cooperation
is a provocative contribution to the fundamental debate among the leading
schools in sociology. Notwithstanding its primarily sociological perspective
and historical subject matter, it is of considerable value to scholars
interested in police organizations and in international sub-governmental
relations.
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Australian
and New Zealand Journal of Criminology, Vol. 37(2), August 2004, pp.
308-312. Reviewed by David Baker.Policing
World Society is a finely crafted analysis with a strong theoretical
basis... This original book is informative, learned, articulate and scholarly...
Deflem's book is very ambitious but he succeeds admirably.
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International
Journal of Police Science and Management, Vol. 6(1), pp. 59-61, 2004.
By
M. Edelbacher. Deflem's
enormous contribution is that he is the first to create a fascinating theoretical
basis by implementing a 'New Weberian Model' and he opens a completely
new perspective in the discussion on international policing. This book
is thought-provoking and can be seen as a new standard for future research.
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Social
Problems Forum: The SSSP Newsletter, Vol. 35(3). pp. 13-15. Fall 2004.
Reviewed by Marc Flacks.
Deflem makes his argument trenchantly, and he has meticulously assembled
and analyzed an impressive array of primary and secondary materials in
support of it. Deflem's book is to be commended for enhancing our critical
understanding of globalization...
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International
and Comparative Law Quarterly, Vol. 52(4), pp. 1068-1069, October 2003.
Reviewed by Hazel Fox.
This book is written for social scientists but it contains matters of interest
to lawyers... The author demonstrates that police cooperation across borderswas
not based on formal intergovernmental accords nor in implementation of
international regulation of crime.
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American
Journal International Law, Vol 98(2), pp. 374-379, April 2004. Reviewed
by David Bryan Sullivan. [T]he
introduction's language --laden with jargon, theory, and citations-- may
be clear to Deflem's academic compatriots but was, at times, barely comprehensible
to this reviewer (admittedly, a nonsociologist). With comment and reply:
AJIL
98:743-744.
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British
Journal of Criminology, Vol. 43(4), pp. 810-812, Autumn 2003. Reviewed
by J. W. E. Sheptycki.
Deflem is both a structural-functionalist and a thorough going modernist...
Despite any misgivings I have about the theory that is used to organize
the book, there can be little doubt that Policing World Society is a substantial
scholarly achievement.
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Journal
of International Criminal Justice, Vol. 1(2), pp. 576-578, August 2003.
Review by Neil Boister, University of Canterbury, New Zealand. One
of Deflem's key arguments is a critique of the assumption that international
policing can be explained in terms of the implementation of laws... Deflem's
critique is most useful in that it suggests a serious degree of detachment
from legality in reality. His book highlights the concern that cooperative
international law enforcement is an enterprise that has been historically,
and remains, more concerned with efficiency than normativity...
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International
Criminal Justice Review, Vol. 17(1), pp. 63-65, 2007. Reviewed by Aogán
Mulcahy. Theoretically
informed and characterized by rigorous empirical analysis, this book is
a welcome addition to the growing criminological lietature on transnational
and global developments generally in the field of policing and social control.
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The
Police Journal, Vol. 76(3), pp. 274-275, 2003. By Rob R. Jerrard.
This is certainly a valuable contribution to the subject of world policing...
This book should find a place in any police library.
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International
Review of Social History, Vol. 49(3), pp. 519-521, 2004. Review by
Klaus Weinhauer. All
in all, Deflem has elaborated a wealth of brilliant theses on the
roots and developments of international police cooperation.
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Archiv
für Sozialgeschichte online, Vol. 44, March 2004. By Jens Jäger.
Unabhängig
von den Einwänden und kritischen Bemerkungen..., ist Deflems Studie
ungemein anregend und lenkt den Blick auf die historischen Grundlagen internationaler
Polizeikooperation... so gibt es gegenwärtig kein anregenderes Buch
zu der Thematik als Policing World Society.
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Kriminologisches
Journal, Vol. 36(1), pp. 69-71, 2004. Review by Hartmut Aden.
Neben den Abschnitten, die Resultate eigener Archivstudien präsentieren,
macht vor allem die vergleichende europäisch-amerikanische Perspektive
das vorligen Buch interessant.
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Yönetim
Bilimleri Dergisi, Vol. 1(3), pp. 225-226, 2004 (Journal of Administrative
Sciences, Turkey). Reviewed by Ömer Atasoy.
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Les
Cahiers de la Sécurité Intérieure, No. 52, pp.
232-234, 2003. Review by Benoît Dupont, Centre International de Criminologie
Comparée. Le
livre que Mathieu Deflem, professeur de sociologie à l’université
de Caroline du Sud, nous propose est d’une remarquable actualité,
malgré la préoccupation historique qui l’anime... La démarche
historique de l’auteur ne se limite néanmoins pas à une simple
ambition descriptive, aussi minutieuse soit-elle. Un modèle théorique
d’internationalisation des fonctions policières d’inspiration wébérienne
confère en effet à ce travail une originalité indéniable...
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PURCHASE
DETAILS |
I apologize
to my colleagues and, especially, to all students who are interested in
reading my work that this book is insanely expensive. The horrible over-pricing
of this book is exclusively due to the publisher. The paperback version
is now sold out, while the reprint edition is available only in hardback.
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can dowload the flyer
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publisher in the USA,
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or online
(includes used copies).
Consult the limited
preview online. Also, many of my related papers on the historical and
contemporary conditions of international policing are freely available
on my
Publications Page.
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