Constraints on the growth of private policing: A comparative international analysis

While much has been written on private security expansion in a few English-speaking industrialized democracies, less is known about why the industry does not develop uniformly around the world. We propose some hypotheses about constraints on private security growth in other settings, based on three...

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Main Author: Singh, Anne-Marie (Author)
Contributors: Light, Matthew
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
Published: 2019
In: Theoretical criminology
Year: 2019, Volume: 23, Issue: 3, Pages: 295-314
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