Developments in European police co-operation have become sharply focused in the last few years. Policing Europe critically examines the historical development of forms of co-operation and their traditional justifications: terrorism, illegal immigration, drug trafficking and other cross-border crime. It is argued that a full understanding of the new policing of Europe needs to take account of the linking of such justifications with the more diffuse debate around removal of border controls and free movement of people. The book suggests that a new European policework is emerging, and examines the implications of this phenomenon.
While not a 'picture book' in the traditional sense. This Day in New York Sports is a bit of a family photo album. It is the album of the family of New York sports over more than 150 years as expressed by a series of daily entries on each day of the year. Within the book you'll find famous members of the family and also those little noted nor long remembered. Day by day as you scroll through the years, you will be introduced (or may be re-introduced) to the names who made New York sports one of the most interesting and compelling dramas in the social history of America for the last century and a half.
This book provides an account of the opportunities and problems inherent in comparative research on crime and punishment. The authors review and synthesise what is a varied and largely unfocused literature of existing comparative criminological research and argue for the importance of the historico-cultural approach to understanding. Using case-study material on 'policy-learning' and regions (for example, Greater China), the book also illustrates how as ideas move across borders, they are adjusted to specific local conditions. Overall, the authors seek to encourage reflection on how, and in what ways, crime and punishment are embedded in changing local and international contexts.
This text provides a historical account of the development of criminal record systems in the UK, USA and Europe. It reviews, in a non-technical manner, present organisational systems of storage, maintenance and dissemination of information held in central criminal record repositories, and explores the purpose and function of those record systems, both inside and outside the criminal justice system. The authors examine the social implications of disclosure, together with an analysis of the politics of protection.
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