RT Article
T1 Germany's New "Security Architecture"? Long-Term Unemployed and Rent-a-Cops
JF Social justice
VO 38
IS 1/2
SP 146
OP 164
A1 Eick, Volker 1963-
LA English
YR 2011
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1747156213
AB 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.
K1 Nonprofit organizations
K1 Private security services
K1 Internal Security
K1 Volunteer workers in law enforcement
K1 Employment of welfare recipients
K1 Private police
K1 Law enforcement agencies
K1 Police
K1 Government Policy
K1 Police-community relations