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Uncle Sam's Policemen : The Pursuit of Fugitives across Borders / Katherine Unterman.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2015]Copyright date: ©2015Description: 1 online resource (288 p.) : 8 halftonesContent type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780674736924
  • 9780674495067
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 364.3 23
LOC classification:
  • HV6791 .U57 2015
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction: Crimes of Mobility -- 1. The Embezzlement Epidemic -- 2. Detectives without Borders -- 3. An Empire of Justice -- 4. Extradition Havens -- 5. Asylum No More -- 6. Camouflaged Extradition -- 7. From the Pinkertons to the FBI -- Epilogue: How Rendition Became Extraordinary -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- Index
Summary: Extraordinary rendition-abducting criminal suspects around the world-has been criticized as an unprecedented expansion of U.S. policing. But America's pursuit of fugitives beyond its borders predates the Global War on Terror. Katherine Unterman shows that the extension of manhunts into foreign lands formed an important chapter in American empire.
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eBook eBook Biblioteca "Angelicum" Pont. Univ. S.Tommaso d'Aquino Nuvola online online - DeGruyter (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Online access Not for loan (Accesso limitato) Accesso per gli utenti autorizzati / Access for authorized users (dgr)9780674495067

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction: Crimes of Mobility -- 1. The Embezzlement Epidemic -- 2. Detectives without Borders -- 3. An Empire of Justice -- 4. Extradition Havens -- 5. Asylum No More -- 6. Camouflaged Extradition -- 7. From the Pinkertons to the FBI -- Epilogue: How Rendition Became Extraordinary -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- Index

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Extraordinary rendition-abducting criminal suspects around the world-has been criticized as an unprecedented expansion of U.S. policing. But America's pursuit of fugitives beyond its borders predates the Global War on Terror. Katherine Unterman shows that the extension of manhunts into foreign lands formed an important chapter in American empire.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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