Globalization-and-Law-Enforcement.docx

**Globalization and Law Enforcement** **Police** -- it is every nation's law enforcement agency. It symbolizes the presence of civil body politics in everyday life. They symbolize the capacity of the state to intervene and the concern of the state for the affairs of the citizen try. \- From **Gree...

**Globalization and Law Enforcement** **Police** -- it is every nation's law enforcement agency. It symbolizes the presence of civil body politics in everyday life. They symbolize the capacity of the state to intervene and the concern of the state for the affairs of the citizen try. \- From **Greek** word **politeia or polis** which means "citizenship, administration, civil polity, or government". \- From **Latin** word word **POLITIA** which means civil administration. \- **French** changed the word to **police** or **policier** which means public order, administration, and government. **What is Globalization?** **Globalization** - is package of transnational flows of people, production, investment, information, ideas, and authority. \- It is the growing interpenetration of state, markets, communication, and ideas. \- It is one of the leading characteristics of the contemporary world. **Threats on Law Enforcement** Some threats brought about by globalization are: 1\. **Increasing volume of human rights violation** evidence by genocide or mass killing 2\. **The underprivileged gain unfair access to global mechanisms** on law enforcement and security. 3. The challenges of globalization is that unaccountable flows of migration and open market present new **threats** -- which are not amendable to state -- based human rights regimes, while the new **opportunities** of global information and institutions are insufficiently accessible and distorted by persistent state intervention. With globalization goes transnational crimes like terrorism, drug trafficking, money laundering, and human trafficking. Transnational crime across borders and the need for bilateral and international cooperation becomes imperative. It is also essential to study trends in policing because the speed by which changes affect the lives of people disturbs traditional values and social arrangement which used to unite people in pursuing common goals in the past. **The Need for Innovative Policing** In law enforcement have been compared in several studies under diverse circumstances, the goal is to test whether the theory and practice in policing need innovation to meet the demands of the present trends in crime fighting. **Comparative Police System** - Process of outlining the similarities and differences of one police system to another in order to discover insights in the field of international policing. What are the Comparative Research Methods? - **Safari" method** - a researcher visits another country - **Collaborative" method -** the researcher communicates with a foreign researcher - **Published works** tend to fall into three categories: - **Single -- culture studies** (the crime problem of a single foreign country is discussed) - **Two-culture studies** (the most common type) - **Comprehensive textbooks** (it covers three or more countries). - **Historical-comprehensive method** - the most often employed by researchers. It is basically an alternative to both quantitative and qualitative research methods that is sometimes called historiography or holism.