RT Book T1 Policing in the Pacific Islands T2 Palgrave's critical policing studies T2 Palgrave pivot A1 Watson, Danielle A2 Howes, Loene A2 Dinnen, Sinclair A2 Bull, Melissa 1962- A2 Amin, Sara N. LA English PP Cham PB Springer YR 2023 UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1856409015 AB "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"--Back cover NO Includes bibliographical references and index CN HV8280.43 SN 9783031106347 K1 Police : Islands of the Pacific K1 Police K1 Pacific Ocean - Islands of the Pacific K1 Pazifische Inseln : Treuhandgebiet : Polizei : Polizeibeamtin : Verbrechen