James Sheptycki is a Professor of Criminology at

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, Toronto, Canada. Sheptycki received a Ph.D. in

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from the

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in 1991. His doctoral thesis was title
Investigation of policing policy in relation to 'domestic violence' in London in the 1980s
He was an ESRC post-doctoral research fellow and lecturer in the Centre for Criminology and the Social and Philosophical Study of Law at the

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from 1993 to 1999. His research interests centre on policing and crime under conditions of transnationalisation.

Books

* (ed.) Issues in Transnational Policing, London: Routledge, (2000) * In Search of Transnational Policing; towards a sociology of global policing, Aldershot: Avebury, (2003) * (ed.) with Ali Wardak, Transnational and Comparative Criminology, London: Routledge Cavendish, (2005) * En quête de police transnationale: Vers une sociologie de la surveillance à l’ère de la globalisation, Bruxelles: De Boek & Larcier, (2005) ; * (ed.) with Andrew Goldsmith, Crafting Transnational Policing; Police Capacity-Building and Global Police Reform, Onati International Series in Law and Society, Oxford: Hart Publishing

References

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