Democracy, Law and Security
Subtitle: Internal Security Services in Contemporary Europe
Contributors: Jean-Paul Brodeur (Editor); Peter Gill (Editor); Dennis Tollborg (Editor)
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing
Published: February 2003
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 362
ISBN-13: 9780754630029
Subjects: Political structure & processes; Sociology, Social Studies; Secret service; General; Social Science; Sociology; Europe; Sociology - General; Intelligence service; Internal security
First sentence: When they compared the police cultures of five European countries -Belgium, France, Germany, Luxembourg and the Netherlands - who had signed the Schengen agreement on transnational police co-operation, Joubert and Bevers concluded that France used covert methods the most frequently and that it had the least open police culture.1