TY - JOUR
AU - Williams, Carl
AB -  The globalization of crime has called forth a criminal justice response that is aptly characterized by the popular catchphrase `transnational policing'. Transnational policing embodies an array of activities including cross-border police cooperation in investigations and tactical operations, intelligence sharing, training and the dispensing of donor aid, all of which constitute an increasingly noticeable aspect of Caribbean criminal justice administration. In his book, Policing the Caribbean: Transnational Security Cooperation in Practice, Ben Bowling focuses on this important and still evolving topic by highlighting the numerous developments in transnational policing in the Anglophone Caribbean. He examines the development of transnational policing in this region from early attempts by colonial authorities to foster inter-island police collaboration to the more contemporary multiagency and multijurisdictional arrangements to advance a regional security agenda. A prolific scholar of Caribbean criminology, Bowling has produced several works on policing and other criminal justice issues in the region. In his current work, Bowling 466 describes the emergence of a new policing paradigm that is continuously influenced, not only by security threats posed by the transnational drug trade and the presence of organized criminal networks, but also by rapid developments in technology, communications, and regional and international travel. Even 
TI - Policing the Caribbean: Transnational Security Cooperation in Practice. By Ben Bowling (New York, NY: Oxford University Press Inc., 2010, 350pp. £60.00 hb)
JF - The British Journal of Criminology
DO - 10.1093/bjc/azr015
DA - 2011-03-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/oxford-university-press/policing-the-caribbean-transnational-security-cooperation-in-practice-599fpZ7PiP
SP - 466
EP - 469
VL - 51
IS - 2
DP - DeepDyve
ER -