Private security and the modern state: historical and comparative perspectives

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Based on extensive research in several international contexts, this volume provides a nuanced assessment of the historical evolution of private security and its fluid, contested, and mutually constitutive relationship with state agencies, public policing, and the criminal justice system. This book p...

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Contributors: Churchill, David 1988- (Editor) ; Janiewski, Dolores 1948- (Editor) ; Leloup, Pieter (Editor) ; Stenning, Philip C. (Writer of preface)
Format: Electronic Book
Language:English
Published: London New York Routledge 2020
In:Year: 2020
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Keywords:
Private security services > History
Internal Security > History
Law Enforcement > History
Criminal justice, Administration of > History
Private security services ; History
Internal security ; History
Law enforcement ; History
Criminal justice, Administration of ; History
Electronic books
HISTORY / World
Social Science / Criminology
Konferenzschrift > 2016 > Valencia
Sicherheit > Privatheit > Staat > Geschichte 1800-1990
Parallel Edition:Non-electronic
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Summary:Based on extensive research in several international contexts, this volume provides a nuanced assessment of the historical evolution of private security and its fluid, contested, and mutually constitutive relationship with state agencies, public policing, and the criminal justice system. This book provides an overview of the history of private security provision in its multiple forms including detective agencies, insurance companies, moral campaigners, employers' associations, paramilitary organisations, self-protection, and vigilantism. It also explores the historical evolution of private policing and security provision in a diverse set of temporal, national and international contexts and compares the interactions between public and private security bodies, structures, strategies, and practices in different countries, cultures, and settings. In doing so, the volume fills the existing gaps in historical knowledge about the emergence of private and public security organisations and provides a more robust understanding of changes in the division of responsibility for security provision, law enforcement, and punishment between public and private institutions. This comprehensive volume will be of great interest to scholars and students of history, criminology, sociology, political science, security studies, policing, criminal justice and law.
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (xi, 269 Seiten) Illustrationen
ISBN:9780429060991
DOI:10.4324/9780429060991