Skip Navigation

This Article
Right arrow Full Text (PDF)
Right arrow Alert me when this article is cited
Right arrow Alert me if a correction is posted
Services
Right arrow Email this article to a friend
Right arrow Similar articles in this journal
Right arrow Alert me to new issues of the journal
Right arrow Add to My Personal Archive
Right arrow Download to citation manager
Right arrow Search for citing articles in:
ISI Web of Science (5)
Right arrowRequest Permissions
Google Scholar
Right arrow Articles by SHEPTYCKI, J. W. E.
Right arrow Search for Related Content
Social Bookmarking
Add to CiteULike   Add to Connotea   Add to Del.icio.us  
What's this?

The British Journal of Criminology 38:485-503 (1998)
© 1998 Centre for Crime & Justice Studies (formerly ISTD)

RESEARCH-ARTICLE

POLICING, POSTMODERNISM AND TRANSNATIONALIZATION

J. W. E. SHEPTYCKI

The author is curreniiy an ESRC Research Fellow (Grant Number H524 27 00061 94)(Grant Number H524 27 00061 94). Acknowledgement of a debt a due to Zenon Bankowski and Neil MacCormict, who corrected my Latin.

The paper defines the notion of the postmodern by reference to notions of deep historical fissure, as found in the work of Arnold Toynbee and C. Wright Mills. It develops this notion by reference to current and ongoing processes of transnationalization, with specific reference to police organization. Four postul ates of poshnodern police are identified and described in detail. These are the marketization of insecurity and social control and the transnationalization of clandestine markets and policing. These postulates are nsed to illuminate broad changes to the transnational state system, in which policing is embedded. The paper concludes in an open-ended manner with reference to the role of academic criminology in these pro cesses which are seemingly beyond dirigiste rationalism.


Add to CiteULike CiteULike   Add to Connotea Connotea   Add to Del.icio.us Del.icio.us    What's this?


This article has been cited by other articles:


Home page
 Cooperation and ConflictHome page
J. P. Burgess
There is No European Security, Only European Securities
Cooperation and Conflict, September 1, 2009; 44(3): 309 - 328.
[Abstract] [PDF]

Home page
 PolicingHome page
B. Bowling
Transnational Policing: The Globalization Thesis, a Typology and a Research Agenda
Policing, April 21, 2009; (2009) pap001v1.
[Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]

Home page
 Br J CriminolHome page
C. O'Reilly and G. Ellison
'Eye Spy Private High': Re-Conceptualizing High Policing Theory
Br. J. Criminol., July 1, 2006; 46(4): 641 - 660.
[Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]


Disclaimer: Please note that abstracts for content published before 1996 were created through digital scanning and may therefore not exactly replicate the text of the original print issues. All efforts have been made to ensure accuracy, but the Publisher will not be held responsible for any remaining inaccuracies. If you require any further clarification, please contact our Customer Services Department.