Policing in the Pacific Islands

Policing in the Pacific Islands
Author: Danielle Watson
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 208
Release: 2023-02-07
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 3031106350

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.

Mapping Security in the Pacific

Mapping Security in the Pacific
Author: Sara N Amin
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 266
Release: 2020-02-25
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0429626657

This book examines questions about the changing nature of security and insecurity in Pacific Island Countries (PICs). Previous discussions of security in the Pacific region have been largely determined by the geopolitical interests of the Global North. This volume instead attempts to centre PICs’ security interests by focussing on the role of organisational culture, power dynamics and gender in (in)security processes and outcomes. Mapping Security in the Pacific underscores the multidimensional nature of security, its relationship to local, international, organisational and cultural dynamics, the resistances engendered through various forms of insecurities, and innovative efforts to negotiate gender, context and organisational culture in reducing insecurity and enhancing justice. Covering the Pacific region widely, the volume brings forth context-specific analyses at micro-, meso- and macro-levels, allowing us to examine the interconnections between security, crime and justice, and point to the issues raised for crime and justice studies by environmental insecurity. In doing so, it opens up opportunities to rethink scholarly and policy frames related to security/insecurity about the Pacific. Written in a clear and direct style, this book will appeal to students and scholars in criminology, sociology, cultural studies, social theory and those interested in learning about the Pacific region and different aspects of security.

The Minnows of Triton

The Minnows of Triton
Author: John Thomas Murray
Publisher:
Total Pages: 314
Release: 2010
Genre: Crime
ISBN: 9780980802108

In Greek mythology, Triton wass he merman son of Poseidon and Amphrite who lived in a golden palace on the bottom of the ocean. A demi-god of the seas, he was represented as a human to his waist but with the tail of a fish. Armed with a trident, he used a large twisted seashell to calm or raise the waves. The minnows, defined as undersized fish often devoured as bait, are the Pacific Islands constantly threatened by external forces.

A Kind of Mending

A Kind of Mending
Author: Sinclair Dinnen
Publisher: ANU E Press
Total Pages: 324
Release: 2010-11-01
Genre: Law
ISBN: 1921666838

With their rich traditions of conflict resolution and peacemaking, the Pacific Islands provide a fertile environment for developing new approaches to crime and conflict. Interactions between formal justice systems and informal methods of dispute resolution contain useful insights for policy makers and others interested in socially attuned resolutions to the problems of order that are found increasingly in the Pacific Islands as elsewhere. Contributors to this volume include Pacific Islanders from Vanuatu, Fiji, the Solomon Islands, Papua New Guinea including Bougainville, as well as outsiders with a longstanding interest in the region. They come from a variety of backgrounds and include criminal justice practitioners, scholars, traditional leaders and community activists. The chapters deal with conflict in a variety of contexts, from interpersonal disputes within communities to large-scale conflicts between communities. This is a book not only of stories but also of practical models that combine different traditions in creative ways and that offer the prospect of building more sustainable resolutions to crime and conflict.

International Police Cooperation

International Police Cooperation
Author: Daniel J. Koenig
Publisher: Lexington Books
Total Pages: 416
Release: 2001
Genre: Law
ISBN: 9780739102268

This volume combines the efforts of leading practitioners and academics in criminology to address the challenges of such persistent international problems as organized crime and illegal immigration. This book offers the most current and detailed account of new international cooperative initiatives.