"The SAGE Handbook of Global Policing examines and critically retraces the field of policing studies by posing and exploring a series of fundamental questions to do with the concept and institutions of policing and their relation to social and political life in today's globalized world."-- Amazon.com website.

Includes index.

Global policing studies : a Propective field -- Part I. Lenses : Political theory, institutional purpose and policing -- Disentangling the 'Golden Threads' : Policing the lessons from police history -- Beyond the social control of space : Towards a multidimensional approach to local security networks -- The color of safety : the Psychology of race and policing -- Police, the rule of law and civil society : a Philosophical perspective -- The Anthropology of police -- Police lawfulness and public security -- Literature and global policing ; part II. Social and political order : Police and state -- Global policing and the nations-state -- The police and inequality : Tales from two cities -- Policing difference -- Policing and human rights -- Police, crime and order : the Case of stop and search -- War, policing, and killing -- Freedom, policing and urban liberalism ; part III. Legacies : Policing after Colonialism -- Policing after state socialism -- Policing after dictatorship in South America -- Pollicing after the revolution : the Emergence of professional police in New China -- Policing after civil rights : the Legacy of police opposition to the Civil Rights Movement for contemporary American policing ; part IV. Problems and problematics : Modernization and development as a motor of polity and policing -- New animism in policing : Re-animating the Rule of Law? -- Countering transnational terrorism : Global policing, global threats and human rights -- Police in armed conflict -- Local dynamics of a global phenomenon : Policing organized crime -- Police, 'Police' and the urban -- Global policing and mobility : Identity, territory, sovereignty -- Towards a global control? Policing and protest in a new century -- The market for global policing -- Policing and new environmental governance -- Policing by and for women in Brazil and beyond -- Complex needs in policing : Training, responsibility and contestation in late Neoliberalism.