The Study of Transnational Policing

Abstract

The aim of this chapter is to develop in detail and to substantiate the idea that the existing literature on transnational policing relies on a theoretical vocabulary whose deficiencies hinder the systematic explanation of the phenomena it is concerned with. What follows is an assessment of an ensemble of works whose theoretical significance consists in advancing explanations of the organisational activity patterns associated with transnational policing. The result of this operation will be to identify the areas where these deficiencies lie, and to suggest how a materialist perspective can contribute towards the construction of an adequate, theoretically pertinent, concept of transnational policing.