Yarin Eski is a Senior Lecturer in Policing Studies at Liverpool John Moores University, UK

Building on ethnographic fieldwork in two European ports, this book discusses how operational policing and security realities and identities are established, and examines how industrial commercialization has aggravated security issues.

Introduction

1. An ethnographic approach

2. Imagining the port securityscape

3. Management, colleagues and partners

4. The port business community

5. The shipping industry

6. Stowaways, port thieves and drug smugglers

7. Terrorists

8. Conclusion