Policing the Caribbean: Transnational Security Co-operation in Practice: Panel and Book Launch

Wednesday 20th October:

Ben Bowling, Policing the Caribbean: Transnational Security Co-operation in Practice Oxford University Press, 2010

VENUE: Chapters, King’s College London, Strand, London WCR 2LS
TIME: 6PM

Panel:

Ben Bowling, Professor of Criminology & Criminal Justice, King's College London Robert Reiner, Department of Law, LSE
Amanda Sives, Department of Politics, Liverpool University

Chair: Philip Murphy, Director, Institute of Commonwealth Studies

Please RSVP to jessica.necchi@oup.com

The panel will be followed by a wine reception. Abstract & bio below.

Abstract:
Policing the Caribbean examines how law enforcement is migrating beyond the boundaries of the nation state. Perceptions of public safety and national sovereignty are shifting in the face of global insecurity and as the police respond to transnational threats like drug trafficking and organised crime. Transnational policing is one of the most significant recent developments in the security field and is changing the organisation of criminal law enforcement in the Caribbean and other parts of the world. Drawing on interviews with chief police officers, Customs, coastguard, immigration, security, military and government officials, Policing the Caribbean examines these changes and provides unique insight into collaboration between local security agencies and liaison officers from the UK and USA. This book considers the impact of a restructured transnational security infrastructure on the safety and wellbeing of the Caribbean islands and beyond. It concludes that as the “war on drugs” has been fought, transnational law enforcement has displaced drug trafficking to new locations across the north Atlantic rim and with it, the associated harms of money laundering, corruption and armed violence.

Ben Bowling is Professor of Criminology & Criminal Justice at King's College London. He has published widely in the fields of policing and international criminal justice. His books include Violent Racism (OUP 1998) and Racism, Crime and Justice (with Coretta Phillips, Longman 2002). He has served on the editorial boards of the British Journal of Criminology and Policing and Society. He has been a consultant to the United Nations and Interpol, and regularly addresses senior security sector practitioners from around the world.

Sponsored by the Institute for the Study of the Americas, The Institute of Commonwealth Studies, the British Society of Criminology and Oxford University Press

Policing and the Policed conference and archives relating to policing in Ceylon

The Institute of Commonwealth Studies, in association with the Open University, is hosting a conference on ‘Policing and the Policed in the Postcolonial State’ on Thursday 29th and Friday 30th April in G37, Senate House, University of London.


This conference seeks to examine policing practice across the Commonwealth from a variety perspectives, including that of the ‘policed’, a constituency whose voices are underrepresented in the existing literature. A key aim of this interdisciplinary conference is to bring together academics specialists from the fields of history, criminology and the social sciences, as well as those responsible for devising and implementing policing policy.

The conference is organized in conjunction with the Colonial and Postcolonial Policing Group (COPP), a global network of academics, policy-makers and practitioners with a shared interest in colonial policing and its legacy for the post-colonial state and for international policing practice. COPP is hosted by The Open University through its International Centre for Comparative Criminological Research.

Speakers will include Professor David Anderson (University of Oxford), Dr Graham Ellison (Queen’s University, Belfast) and Professor Alice Hills (University of Leeds).

Please contact Troy Rutt troy.rutt@sas.ac.uk for further details.

With this forthcoming conference it is timely to announce a new archives catalogue available online. The papers of J R Granville Bantock: Assistant Superintendent of Police, Ceylon, 1931-1928; and Superintendent, Crime Branch, Columbo, Ceylon, 1931-1936, have been added to the ULRLS Archives Catalogue in PDF format.


The collections comprise the papers of J R Granville Bantock on his career with the Ceylon Police Force, 1921-1936; including personal papers 1922-1938, including correspondence; papers on visit of the Prince of Wales [later King Edward VIII and Duke of Windsor], 1922; papers on visit of the Crown Prince and Princess of Sweden, Dec 1922; papers on the role of the police during elections, 1931-1932; report by H L Dowbiggin, Inspector-General of Police, on disturbance at Eraviur, Eastern Province, 1933; report by Bantock on strike at spinning and weaving mills, Wellawatte, 1937; notes on poison gases; copies of lectures on criminal law; Weekly Reports, 1921-1936, comprising record of inspections, parades, rounds and visits to crime scenes [very brief accounts of day-to day work]

The catalogue entry for the collection is available here.