TY - JOUR
T1 - Rethinking Legal Research on Matters of International Police Cooperation
T2 - Issues, Methods and Raison d’Être
AU - Calcara, Giulio
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2019, The Author(s).
PY - 2019/7/1
Y1 - 2019/7/1
N2 - On a daily basis, police services from countries with different legal traditions and diverse criminal justice systems exchange legal documents and criminal intelligence for the purpose of tackling transnational and international crime or to locate individuals. This is international police cooperation in a nutshell, an articulated phenomenon riddled with complexities and legal challenges. And yet, when compared with other fields, international police cooperation is an area of research traditionally overlooked by legal scholars, practitioners, and experts alike. This article wants to stimulate a reflection on what is, or should be, the role and the nature of legal research in the field of international police cooperation. This article does not aim to be comprehensive, nor to provide a definitive guide on how to conduct legal research. Instead, it focuses on what aspects of legal research can be beneficial for the study and the betterment of international police cooperation.
AB - On a daily basis, police services from countries with different legal traditions and diverse criminal justice systems exchange legal documents and criminal intelligence for the purpose of tackling transnational and international crime or to locate individuals. This is international police cooperation in a nutshell, an articulated phenomenon riddled with complexities and legal challenges. And yet, when compared with other fields, international police cooperation is an area of research traditionally overlooked by legal scholars, practitioners, and experts alike. This article wants to stimulate a reflection on what is, or should be, the role and the nature of legal research in the field of international police cooperation. This article does not aim to be comprehensive, nor to provide a definitive guide on how to conduct legal research. Instead, it focuses on what aspects of legal research can be beneficial for the study and the betterment of international police cooperation.
KW - Human rights
KW - International police cooperation
KW - INTERPOL
KW - Legal research
KW - Methodology
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85071488269&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1007/s10991-019-09229-9
DO - 10.1007/s10991-019-09229-9
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85071488269
SN - 0144-932X
VL - 40
SP - 95
EP - 111
JO - Liverpool Law Review
JF - Liverpool Law Review
IS - 2
ER -