NCJ Number
154601
Journal
Police Journal Volume: 68 Issue: 1 Dated: (January-March 1995) Pages: 7-16
Date Published
1995
Length
10 pages
Annotation
This article discusses some of the problems associated with the development and operation of a global police service to counter transnational organized crime and suggests how nation- states acting on their own can help combat such crime.
Abstract
"Globalization" presses the issue of a global police service. "Globalization" results from dynamic processes that construct and weave networks of interaction and interconnectedness across the states and societies that compose the modern world system. Globalization is prompting a reassessment of the modern policing role because of increased opportunities for transnational crime, along with opportunities for improving the human condition. Barriers to a global police service are the cultural diversity that molds diverse social values, the difficulty of achieving a consensus as to what crime is transnational, and the priority given to various crimes deemed to be transnational. Another difficulty is developing or finding an international institution to administer the global police service. Keeping the global police and its supervisory agency free of corruption and infiltration by organized crime would be another problem. Nation states can do much to impact transnational crime absent a global police service, namely, maintaining a corruption-free government that counters crime within its jurisdiction and cooperates with other nation states in doing the same. The education of citizens in crime prevention and vice-free living can also reduce the demand for such illegal markets as drugs and black market goods. 8 references