The Rebirth of Private Policing

by Johnston,Les

• ISBN13: 9780415051934
• ISBN10: 0415051932
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 1992-03-13
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

Until recently, private police work has been ignored by criminologists primarily concerned with the activity of the public police force. Johnston provides an original view of police history focusing on the emergence of the private police sector as the embodiment of the growing privatization of authority in society. The book's analysis of current developments in private policing compel the reader to re-assess the conventional distinction between "public" and "private" authority so often taken for granted in social and political theory.TheRebirth of Private Policingintroduces a provocative analysis of the role of policing of interest to anyone concerned with the question of social control and the state.

Table of Contents

Preface

Historical and Political Background

Private Policing: Before and After the 'New Police'

Ideologies of Public and Private Provision

Private Policing: Current Developments and their Policy Implications

Privatization and Public Policing

The Private Security Sector I: Structure and Control

The Private Security Sector II: Activities

Hybrid Policing

Citizenship and Self-Policing: Responsible Citizenship

Citizenship and Self-Policing II: Autonomous Citizenship

Theoretical Conclusions

New Directions in the Sociology of Policing

Privatization and Social Control

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