Priv-War: regulating privatisation of war

The PRIV-WAR project will assess the impact of the increasing use of private military companies and security companies (PMCs/PSCs) in situations of armed conflict. It will examine the regulatory framework at national, European and international levels, with a view to ensuring improved compliance with international humanitarian law and human rights. Launched in January 2008, the project [...]

Fiction, facts and a summer’s fairy tale – mixed messages at the World Cup 2006

Schreiber, Martina and Adang, Otto(2010) ‘Fiction, Facts and a Summer’s Fairy Tale – Mixed Messages at the World Cup 2006′, Policing and Society, 20: 2 The FIFA World Championships 2006 in Germany have been praised for their positive atmosphere and described as a ‘fairy tale’. Yet, more than 9000 persons were arrested. This paper presents [...]

Resource constraint and policy in Liberia’s post-conflict policing

Baker, Bruce. 2010. Resource Contraint and Policy in Liberia’s Post-conflict Policing.  Police Practice & Research, Vol. 11 Issue 3, p184-196 Available with subscription http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspxdirect=true&db=aph&AN=51484695&site=ehost-live

The Globalization of Crime: A Transnational Organized Crime Threat Assessment in New York on 17 June 2010

The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) has launched a report on The Globalization of Crime: A Transnational Organized Crime Threat Assessment in New York on 17 June 2010. This report can be accessed at: http://www.unodc.org/documents/data-and-analysis/tocta/TOCTA_Report_2010_low_res.pdf This threat assessment of transnational organized crime looks at major trafficking flows, including drugs (cocaine and heroin), [...]

The Transnational Security Consultancy Industry: A Case of State-Corporate Symbiosis by Conor O’Reilly

Theoretical Criminology, Vol. 14, No. 2, 183-210 (2010) This article examines state–corporate organizational complexes within the transnational policing sphere. Its specific focus is upon the transnational security consultancy industry and its interaction with state security agencies. Exemplifying the proposed theoretical construct of state–corporate symbiosis, leading firms are held out as key facilitators for this ongoing close association [...]

Public-Private Partnerships: Governance Scheme or Language Game? by Graeme Hodge and Carsten Greve

Full citation: Hodge, G. and Greve, C. (2010) Public-Private Partnerships: Governance Scheme or Language Game? Australian Journal of Public Administration: 69(1):s8-s22. Abstract from article: Accepting that there is much confusion in current debates about the use of public-private partnerships for public infrastructure projects, the article begins by considering the emergence of the ‘PPP phenomenon’ as [...]

The EU in Central Asia: Succesful Good Governance Promotion? by Katharina Hoffmann

Abstract from the article: A reappraisal of security and economic interests has led to increased engagement by the European Union with Central Asia in the past few years. As a new foreign policy tool the EU adopted a new partnership strategy for Central Asia in 2007. The strategy aims to integrate both interest-based and governance-related [...]

Policing: A Journal of Policy and Practice. New issue available.

A new issue of Policing is available online 2010; Vol. 4, No. 2 The Table of Contents is available online at: http://policing.oxfordjournals.org/content/vol4/issue2/index.dtl Articles include: Peter Neyroud Special Edition on Collaborations, Policing 2010 4: 91 Karim Murji Introduction: Academic–Police Collaborations—Beyond ‘Two Worlds’, Policing 2010 4: 92-94 Monique Marks, Jennifer Wood, Faizel Ally, Tess Walsh, and Abbey Witbooi [...]

New issue of British Journal of Criminology

A new issue of British Journal of Criminology is available online: Terrorism: Criminological Perspectives: July 2010; Vol. 50, No. 4 The below Table of Contents is available online at: http://bjc.oxfordjournals.org/content/vol50/issue4/index.dtl

Virtual Issue on Crime, Justice and the Media

Virtual Issue on Crime, Justice and the Media in the Howard Journal of Criminal Justice The reader can be accessed at: http://www.wiley.com/bw/vi.asp?ref=0265-5527&site=1#404 This reader focusses on the media, crime and criminal justice. This is a growing area of academic and practitioner concern. For some the concern is whether the media has effects that cause crime [...]