The New Parapolice

by Rigakos, George S.

• ISBN13: 9780802035622
• ISBN10: 0802035620
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2002-03-01
• Publisher: Univ of Toronto Pr

Summary

Rigakos argues that for-profit policing and security companies adopt many of the tactics and functions of the public police, and are less distinguishable from the latter than has been previously assumed in the criminological literature.

Author Biography

George S. Rigakos is Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology and Criminology at Saint Mary's University in Halifax.

Table of Contents

List of Tables and Figures	vii
Acknowledgments	ix
Introduction	3	(1)
This Study in Context	3	(1)
Objectives of This Study	4	(2)
Organization	6	(3)
Theorizing the Private Police	9	(17)
Marxian Approaches	10	(4)
Foucauldian Approaches	14	(2)
Governmentality and Risk: A Marxist Critique	16	(6)
Parapolicing Risk Markets	22	(4)
Methods of Inquiry	26	(11)
Critical Ethnography	27	(2)
Formal Interviews	29	(3)
Occurrence, Personnel, and Bannings Databases	32	(3)
Communications and Other Internal Documents	35	(1)
The Media	35	(2)
The New Parapolice	37	(34)
Public vs Private Policing: The Problematic Dichotomy	39	(9)
Powers of the Parapolice	48	(5)
Private Justice	53	(1)
Public vs Private Law Enforcement: A Statistical Comparison	54	(8)
A 'Trip through the Sewer'	62	(9)
Inside a Law Enforcement Company	71	(27)
Recruitment	72	(1)
Pre-employment Testing	73	(1)
Training	74	(7)
'Rookies'	81	(2)
Who Are the Parapolice?	83	(2)
Race, Class, Gender	85	(13)
A Parapolice Surveillance System	98	(21)
Perpetual Examination	100	(7)
Hyperpanoptic Fantasies	107	(6)
Selling Surveillance in Risk Markets	113	(6)
Solidarity, Fear, and Subculture	119	(28)
Resistance from Within: The Art of `Ghosting'	120	(6)
Crime Fighting and the Wannabe Culture	126	(9)
Resistance from Below: Safety in Numbers	135	(3)
'TIPs' and 'Swarmings': The Dialectics of Fear	138	(9)
Closing Remarks	147	(12)
On Theory	148	(4)
Future Research	152	(1)
On Governance	153	(6)
Notes	159	(8)
References	167	(14)
Index	181