Mounting a vigorous critique on existing approaches to transnational policing, this book lays out an argument situating transnational policing within contemporary transformations of the capitalist state and imperialism, looking at the particular case of regional police cooperation against sex trafficking in Southeast Europe.

Acknowledgements Introduction The Study of Transnational Policing Imperialism, the State and the Police The Global Prohibition Regime on Human Trafficking Politics and Policing Sex Trafficking in SE Europe Policing Sex Trafficking in Greece Conclusion: The Mirage of Transnational Policing References

GEORGIOS PAPANICOLAOU Lecturer in Criminology at Teesside University, UK. He works from a materialist theoretical perspective on the history, organisation and role of the police apparatus, and his current research interests include the politics of transnational policing and the policing of national and transnational illegal markets.