Germany's New "Security Architecture"? Long-Term Unemployed and Rent-a-Cops

The article looks at the institutions of security and policing in Germany, as of 2011. The author describes the expansion of what is referred to in government policy statements as the country's "security architecture" to include traditional public-sector police forces as well as priva...

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Main Author: Eick, Volker 1963- (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
Published: 2011
In: Social justice
Year: 2011, Volume: 38, Issue: 1/2, Pages: 146-164
Online Access: Volltext (Verlag)
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Keywords:
Nonprofit organizations
Private security services
Internal Security
Volunteer workers in law enforcement
Employment of welfare recipients
Private police
Law enforcement agencies
Police
Government Policy
Police-community relations
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Summary:The article looks at the institutions of security and policing in Germany, as of 2011. The author describes the expansion of what is referred to in government policy statements as the country's "security architecture" to include traditional public-sector police forces as well as private for-profit security companies and unemployed workers engaged in neighborhood watch and other security efforts through workfare programs. He discusses issues raised by the growth of private security firms and workfare parapolice, including their legal status in relation to the policing power of the state, the role of the nonprofit agencies administering the workfare programs, and the relationship of such security personnel to the residents of the low-income areas where they are often assigned.
ISSN:2327-641X