The involvement of police and other security forces in systematic abuses of human rights in many developing and developed countries, has placed the control of police on a number of international agendas. An increasing number of countries are experimenting with different forms of police accountability and many are turning to civilian oversight bodies in an attempt to improve the process.

This book examines the phenomenon of crafting transnational policing, defined as the different forms of engagement in policing reform by international donors, national governments, foreign police, and law enforcement agencies in the domestic policing agencies and programs of recipient countries. It includes peacekeeping in post-conflict situations, reconstruction and capacity building as part of nation- or state-building exercises, and the provision of technical assistance in relation to certain aspects of law enforcement. In each instance, there is a cross-border provision of resources with...

This innovative collection offers one of the first analysis of criminologies of the military from an interdisciplinary perspective. Criminologists have commented in detail in the past on the military; war crimes for example, is a well discussed topic. This collection looks at those equally important, but less explored aspects, such as private military actors, insurgents and paramilitary groups. The contributions, by leading experts in the field, have a broad reach and take a truly global approach to the subject.