Policing in the Pacific Islands

1. Auflage 2023
ISBN: 978-3-031-10634-7
Verlag: Springer International Publishing

Buch, Englisch, 197 Seiten, Format (B × H): 153 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 398 g

Reihe: Palgrave's Critical Policing Studies

This open access book brings together insights into Pacific policing, conceptualising policing broadly as order maintenance involving the actions of multiple local, regional and international actors with sometimes competing and conflicting agendas. A complex and multifaceted endeavour, scholarship on this topic is relatively scarce and widely dispersed across diverse sources. It examines how Pacific policing is shaped by changing state-society relations in different national contexts and ongoing processes of globalisation. Particular attention is given to the plural character of Pacific policing, profound challenges of gender equity, changing dynamics of crime, and the prominence of transnational policing in resource and capacity constrained domestic environments. The authors draw on examples from across the Pacific islands to provide a nuanced and contextualised account of policing in this socially diverse and rapidly transforming region.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Watson, Danielle

Howes, Loene

Amin, Sara N.

Dinnen, Sinclair

Bull, Melissa

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Kriminalsoziologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Regierungspolitik Innen-, Bildungs- und Bevölkerungspolitik
• Rechtswissenschaften Strafrecht Kriminologie, Strafverfolgung
• Rechtswissenschaften Öffentliches Recht Verwaltungsrecht Verwaltungspraxis Polizei

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Chapter 1. Introduction to policing in the Pacific.- Chapter 2. Context-specific issues and challenges of policing in the Pacific.- Chapter 3. Trends in and social dynamics of crime in the Pacific.- Chapter 4. Plural policing in the Pacific.- Chapter 5. The international policing agenda in the Pacific.- Chapter 6. Women and the institution of policing in the Pacific.- Chapter 7. Conclusion.

Über Autor(innen)

Danielle Watson is Senior Lecturer and Research Training Coordinator in the School of Justice, Queensland University of Technology, Australia.

Loene Howes is Senior Lecturer in the School of Social Sciences at the University of Tasmania, Australia.

Sinclair Dinnen is Senior Fellow in the Department of Pacific Affairs at the Australian National University, Australia.

Melissa Bull is Interdisciplinary Scholar and Director of Queensland University of Technology Centre for Justice, Australia.

Sara N. Amin is Senior Lecturer and the Discipline Coordinator of Sociology at the University of the South Pacific, Fiji.