Policing in the Pacific Islands

This open access book brings together insights into Pacific policing, conceptualising policing broadly as order maintenance involving the actions of multiple local, regional and international actors with sometimes competing and conflicting agendas. A complex and multifaceted endeavour, scholarship on this topic is relatively scarce and widely dispersed across diverse sources. It examines how Pacific policing is shaped by changing state-society relations in different national contexts and ongoing processes of globalisation. Particular attention is given to the plural character of Pacific policing, profound challenges of gender equity, changing dynamics of crime, and the prominence of transnational policing in resource and capacity constrained domestic environments. The authors draw on examples from across the Pacific islands to provide a nuanced and contextualised account of policing in this socially diverse and rapidly transforming region.

This book is open access, which means that you have free and unlimited access Advances knowledge and awareness of policing in this region Examines emerging global issues and how they will affect policing in Pacific Island states Positions policing as critical to governance and policing as service delivery

Auteur
Danielle Watson is Senior Lecturer and Research Training Coordinator in the School of Justice, Queensland University of Technology, Australia.

Loene Howes is Senior Lecturer in the School of Social Sciences at the University of Tasmania, Australia.

Sinclair Dinnen is Senior Fellow in the Department of Pacific Affairs at the Australian National University, Australia.

Melissa Bull is Interdisciplinary Scholar and Director of Queensland University of Technology Centre for Justice, Australia.

Sara N. Amin is Senior Lecturer and the Discipline Coordinator of Sociology at the University of the South Pacific, Fiji.

Contenu

Chapter 1. Introduction to policing in the Pacific.- Chapter 2. Context-specific issues and challenges of policing in the Pacific.- Chapter 3. Trends in and social dynamics of crime in the Pacific.- Chapter 4. Plural policing in the Pacific.- Chapter 5. The international policing agenda in the Pacific.- Chapter 6. Women and the institution of policing in the Pacific.- Chapter 7. Conclusion.