The British Journal of Sociology
Volume 49 No. 1 March l998
Pages 57-74
Abstract
This paper employs notions about the occupational subculture of policing and policing as 'knowledge work' in order to discuss transnational trends in policing. The complex unity between the transnational subculture of policing, which is sustained through knowledge exchange, and the subculture of transnational policing, which is precariously negotiated through practical arrangements for cross-border policing, is viewed as an achievement of the knowledge society.
Keywords: characterological analysis, globalism, knowledge society, police, subculture, transnational
J.W.E. Sheptycki
Centre for Law and Society
University of Edinburgh