The SAGE Handbook of Global Policing examines and critically retraces the field of policing studies by posing and exploring a series of fundamental questions to do with the concept and institutions of policing and their relation to social and political life in today's globalized world. The volume is structured in the following four parts:

• Part One: Lenses


• Part Two: Social and Political Order


• Part Three: Legacies


• Part Four: Problems and Problematics.

By bringing new lines of vision and new voices to the social analysis of policing, and by clearly demonstrating why policing matters, the Handbook will be an essential tool for anyone in the field.

• Contents 7
• Notes on the Editors and Contributors 10
• Chapter 1 - Global Policing Studies: A Prospective Field 19
• PART I - Lenses 29
  • Chapter 2 - Political Theory, Institutional Purpose and Policing 31
  • Chapter 3 - Disentangling the ‘Golden Threads’: Policing the Lessons from Police History 47
  • Chapter 4 - Beyond the Social Control of Space: Towards a Multidimensional Approach to Local Security Networks 64
  • Chapter 5 - The Color of Safety: The Psychology of Race and Policing 79
  • Chapter 6 - Police, the Rule of Law, and Civil Society: A Philosophical Perspective 100
  • Chapter 7 - The Anthropology of Police 121
  • Chapter 8 - Police Lawfulness and Public Security 140
  • Chapter 9 - Literature and Global Policing 154
• PART II - Social and Political Order 171
  • Chapter 10 - Police and State 173
  • Chapter 11 - Global Policing and the ­Nation-State 197