It is indeed a pleasure for me to see this volume on the Global Environment of Policing come to fruition. The essays that make it up provide a very welcome window through which readers are invited to explore policing within different geographic locations through the eyes of both practitioners...

As with so much of the sociological literature on the public police, the bulk of the research on police deviance has been undertaken in the United States of America. American scholars have focused their attention almost exclusively on police corruption, so that although there is a considerable...

While policing has always been plural, states have for several centuries sought to realize an ideal of a state monopoly over the governance of security. These aspirations have their roots in the political thought of Hobbes (among others) who wrote at the time of the Westphalian Peace of 1648....