Policing World Society Historical Foundations of International Police Cooperation

by Deflem, Mathieu

• ISBN13: 9780199259625
• ISBN10: 0199259623
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2003-02-06
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

This book offers a sociological analysis of the history of international police cooperation in the period from the middle of the 19th century until the end of World War II. It is a detailed exploration of international cooperation strategies involving police institutions from the UnitedStates and Germany as well as other European countries. The study provides a rich empirical account of many dimensions in the history of international policing, including the role of police in the 19th-century movement towards nationalindependence; evolution from political cooperationtowards international criminal enforcement; international policing aspects of the outbreak of World War I and the Bolshevik Revolution; the early history of international police organizations, including Interpol; the international implications of the Nazification of the German police; and the riseon the international scene of the Federal Bureau of Investigation.To account for these historical transformations, this book develops an innovative theoretical model of bureaucratization based on the sociology of Max Weber and theories of globalization. It is argued that international police cooperation is enabled through a historical process of police agenciesgradually claiming and gaining a position of relative independence from the governments of their respective states. Furthermore it shows that international police cooperation relies on expert systems of knowledge on international crime, which police institutions across nations develop and share.Paradoxically, in spite of this spirit of cooperation, national concerns of participating forces remain paramount.

Author Biography

Mathieu Deflem is Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of South Carolina, and previously helds positions at Purdue University and Kenyon College. A former native of Belgium, he studied sociology and anthropology at universities in Belgium and England, before he migrated to the United States and obtained a Ph.D. in sociology from the University of Colorado. His research specialties include international criminal justice, crime and social control, abortion policy, sociolegal studies, and theoretical sociology. Deflem is elected Chair of the Law and Society division of the Society for the Study of Social Problems. He is also newsletter editor of the Sociology of Law section of the American Sociological Association, and website developer for the same organization's Comparative and Historical Sociology section.

Table of Contents

List of Abbreviations	xv
Introduction: Historical Foundations of International Police Cooperation	1	(1)
Policing world society	1	(11)
Bureaucratization and international police Cooperation	12	(22)
`Omnes et singulatim': On the origins of the modern police	34	(4)
The dynamics of international policing	38	(7)
The Rise of International Policing	45	(33)
`Conspiracies of a comprehensive character': The international policing of politics	45	(6)
The politics of international policing	51	(14)
Enforcing international law: The social defence against anarchism and white slavery	65	(5)
International policing---from politics to crime	70	(8)
The Expansion of World Society	78	(19)
`Every race under the sun': The internationalization of US policing	78	(5)
The boundaries of the new world	83	(7)
From national sovereignty to international society	90	(7)
Towards an International Criminal Police	97	(14)
`International comity'---`Conferencia internacional': international police cooperation in the Americas	99	(3)
`Springtime ravings at the Cote d'Azur': The First Congress of International Criminal Police	102	(1)
The rise and fall of international police cooperation	103	(8)
War and Revolution	111	(13)
`Different ways to submit a state': Policing World War I	111	(3)
`The danger of communism is nil': Policing the Bolshevik world revolution	114	(5)
A rebirth of political policing?	119	(5)
The Origins of Interpol	124	(29)
`From almost every state of the earth': The International Police Congress at Vienna, 1923	125	(3)
`Good things in economic and cultural respects': The elaboration of the ICPC, 1923-1934	128	(4)
`The premier police association of the world': The International Police Conference	132	(3)
The success of the International Criminal Police Commission, Part I: The organization of `purely technical matters'	135	(4)
The failure of the International Police Conference: The boundaries of international crime	139	(3)
The success of the International Criminal Police Commission, Part II: The fight against `the common enemy of humankind'	142	(5)
Bureaucratic autonomy and international criminal police cooperation	147	(6)
Policing Across National Borders	153	(21)
The expansion of national police systems	154	(5)
`American ideas are German ideas as well': A dialogue on policing in two countries	159	(7)
`Our constant battle': The internationalization of national policing	166	(5)
The nationalization of international policing	171	(3)
On the Road to War: The Control of World Policing	174	(25)
`Official duties': The FBI and Nazi police join the ICPC	176	(3)
`The organization is an independent entity': Visions of a Nazified world police	179	(2)
`The International Criminal Police Commission carries on': The path of Nazification	181	(4)
The rationality of a Nazified world police	185	(10)
The persistence of nationality: From cooperation to espionage and warfare	195	(4)
Policing the Peace and the Restoration of World Order	199	(15)
`On the same basis as before': The reconstruction of an international police	200	(2)
`A complicated international picture': The FBI and the re-formation of the ICPC	202	(2)
The politics of international policing	204	(10)
Conclusion: Patterns and Dynamics of International Policing	214	(18)
The nationality of international policing	215	(4)
The rationality of international policing	219	(5)
The state of policing	224	(4)
September 11	228	(4)
Appendix 1: A Chronology of International Policing	232	(6)
Appendix 2: A German--US Dialogue on Policing and Criminal Justice	238	(5)
German perspectives of US criminal justice	238	(2)
US perspectives of German criminal justice	240	(3)
Appendix 3: Archives and Libraries	243	(2)
Bibliography	245	(50)
Index	295