Bureaucratization and Social Control
Historical Foundations of International Police Cooperation
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4085247 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Mathieu Deflem (0000-0002-9616-5496, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2000 |
| Volume | 34 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 739-778 |
| Publication date | 2000-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Law & Society Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0023-9216 • E-ISSN: 1540-5893 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/3115142 |
| OpenAlex | W2066411261 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 33 |
| References cited | 60 |
I employ a theoretical framework developed on the basis of the writings of Max Weber to analyze historical developments in the formation of international police organizations. I rely on a comparative analysis of selected cases of international police networks and centrally focus on the most famous and enduring of such structures, the International Criminal Police Commission, the forerunner of the organization since 1956 known as "Interpol." Using a Weberian perspective of bureaucratization, I maintain that the formation of international police organizations was historically made possible when public police institutions were sufficiently detached from the political centers of their respective states to function autonomously as expert bureaucracies. Under such circumstances of institutional autonomy, police bureaucracies fostered practices of collaboration across the borders of their respective national jurisdictions because and when they were motivated by a professionally defined interest in the fight against international crime. In conclusion to this analysis, I argue for the value of sociological perspectives of social control that are not reductionist, but that instead bring out the specific socially and sociologically significant dimensions of control mechanisms
Bureaucracy · Control (management · Criminology · Economics · Law and economics · Management · Political science · Politics · Social control · Sociology · European Union Policy and Governance · International Relations and Foreign Policy · Law · Peacebuilding and International Security · Public Administration
Power, institutions, and the production of inequality
The power of liberal international organizations
Power in Global Governance
Policing and global governance
The socio-genesis of a guild of 'digital technologies' justifying transnational interoperable databases in the name of security and border purposes
Migrants, intermediaries and police agents in 1920s Paris
Why lawyers internationalize and police transnationalize
Trends in police research
Trends in police research
Security at the Borders
Police Prejudice or Logics
Entre el orden, el vínculo, el conflicto y el poder. Aproximación histórica al concepto de control social y análisis de sus usos historiográficos
UK–EU law enforcement cooperation post-Brexit
Normative and instrumental judgements of policing and their relative impacts on police empowerment during protracted conflict
What's New About the "New Surveillance"? Classifying for Change and Continuity
Transnational policing between national political regimes and human rights norms
Tensions of abolitionism during the negotiation of the 1949 ‘Convention for the Suppression of the Traffic in Persons and of the Exploitation of the Prostitution of Others’
Myths, militarism and the police patrol rifle
Does police work need a police institution? The evidence from Mogadishu
Building resilience, demolishing accountability? The role of Europol in counter-terrorism
Police, policy and politics in Brussels
The Accountability of Transnational Policing Institutions
Drogas, castigo y poder pastoral en Ecuador
Bureaucracy, managerial disorganization, and administrative breakdown in criminal justice agencies
What Is Policeness? On Being Police in Somalia
More integration, less federation
Between space, relational sociology, and Lefebvre's critique of modernity
Are you being served?” Evaluating the impact of training on police officers’ service orientation
Designing Police
Police « globalisée » et déploiements canadiens dans les opérations de paix1
Transportation versus Imprisonment in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Britain
Foucault and Sociology
Gender attitudes of police officers
Bureaucracy in modern society
A critical history of police reform
Justice without trial
The Formation of national States in Western Europe
The functions of the police in modern society
Social control and the state
The Bureaucratization of the World
Undercover
Bureaucracy
Economy and Society
From Max Weber
Social Control and the State
The Ideological Effects of Actuarial Practices
Parlament und Regierung im neugeordneten Deutschland. Zur politischen Kritik des Beamtentums und Parteiwesens
Politik als Beruf
Punishment and Modern Society
Economy and Society
Bureaucracy Against Democracy and Socialism
Police bureaucracies, their incentives, and the war on drugs
Crime and law enforcement in the global village
Police Work
The International Anti-Anarchist Conference of 1898 and the Origins of Interpol
Cops across borders
Police Subculture Reconsidered
Vigilantes and the Police
Transnational Policing and the Makings of a Postmodern State
Policing, Postmodernism and Transnationalization
The Militarization of the U.S.-Mexico Border, 1978-1992
The Political and Social Theory of Max Weber
How institutions think
Gesammelte politische Schriften
Governmentality' and the Problem of Crime
The Global Cops Cometh
Reforming Foucault
World Culture in the World Polity
The Rational and the Ambivalent in the Social Sciences
FBI Wiretapping
Implications of "Third-Party" Involvement in Enforcement
The State and Collective Disorders
Social Control
Street Crime, Labor Surplus, and Criminal Punishment, 1980-1990
Modeling the Relationships Between Macro Forms of Social Control
The Determinants of Deadly Force
World Society and the Nation-State
Institutionalized Organizations
Prison Riots as Microrevolutions
Putting Power in the Anthropology of Bureaucracy
Community policing as a governmental technology
| Unique citing works | 33 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,38 |
| Citation span | 2002 - 2025 (24) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 33 |