James Sheptycki is a Professor of Criminology at York University

York University

York University is a public research university in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It is Canada's third-largest university, Ontario's second-largest graduate school, and Canada's leading interdisciplinary university....

, Toronto, Canada. He received a Ph.D. in sociology from the London School of Economics

London School of Economics

The London School of Economics and Political Science is a public research university specialised in the social sciences located in London, United Kingdom, and a constituent college of the federal University of London...

in 1991 and was an ESRC post-doctoral research fellow and lecturer in the Centre for Criminology and the Social and Philosophical Study of Law at the University of Edinburgh from 1993-1999. His research interests centre on policing and crime under conditions of transnationalisation.

Books

• (ed.) Issues in Transnational Policing, London: Routledge, (2000) ISBN 978-0415192613 ISBN 0415192617
• In Search of Transnational Policing; towards a sociology of global policing, Aldershot: Avebury, (2003) ISBN 978-0754622956 ISBN 0754622959
• (ed.) with Ali Wardak, Transnational and Comparative Criminology, London: Routledge Cavendish, (2005) ISBN 978-1904385059 ISBN 1904385052
• En quête de police transnationale: Vers une sociologie de la surveillance à l’ère de la globalisation, Bruxelles: De Boek & Larcier, (2005) ; ISBN 978-2804415785 ISBN 2804415783
• (ed.) with Andrew Goldsmith, Crafting Transnational Policing; Police Capacity-Building and Global Police Reform, Onati International Series in Law and Society, Oxford: Hart Publishing ISBN 978-1841137766 ISBN 1841137766