Cybercrime, politics and their significance in the internationalisation of policing: perspectives of academics and practitioners
The study is an empirical one within the quantitative paradigm. Purposive and convenient sampling were used to obtain respondents from police practitioners and academia across the globe. Some regions around the world were poorly represented and only Africa, North America and Europe (East and West) w...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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2018
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Acta criminologica
Year: 2018, Volume: 31, Issue: 3, Pages: 161-175 |
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Volltext (Verlag) |
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| Summary: | The study is an empirical one within the quantitative paradigm. Purposive and convenient sampling were used to obtain respondents from police practitioners and academia across the globe. Some regions around the world were poorly represented and only Africa, North America and Europe (East and West) were reasonably well represented. In most data analyses, the total (N=203) was used. The study looked at internationalisation/globalisation of policing and what drives it. It further assessed the views of respondents on such variables as crime and their importance in internationalisation of policing. Police practitioners rated cybercrime together with drug trafficking the third highest amongst a number of transnational crimes. Human trafficking and piracy were rated above these. Police practitioners and academics also differed in the way they rated different crimes. The preference of respondents on state sovereignty and treaties as well as the ICC as a possible coordinator of a more global effort in policing should be communicated to the UN and Interpol. |
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| ISSN: | 1012-8093 |