Marketization in a state-centred policing context: the case of Sweden

This article examines how and why marketization of policing may occur in a historically state-centred policing context in the absence of governmental policy promoting privatization and marketization. In Sweden, a community-level marketization is increasingly becoming the new norm. It is a result of...

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Main Author: Hansen Löfstrand, Cecilia (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
Published: 2021
In: European journal of criminology
Year: 2021, Volume: 18, Issue: 6, Pages: 899-917
Online Access: Volltext (lizenzpflichtig)
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Keywords:
Community level
Marketization
Policing
Private Security
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Summary:This article examines how and why marketization of policing may occur in a historically state-centred policing context in the absence of governmental policy promoting privatization and marketization. In Sweden, a community-level marketization is increasingly becoming the new norm. It is a result of a political mobilization by the private security industry, characterized by an association of private security with the public interest in safety, an absence of national political decision-making, and pragmatic local initiatives to increase public safety, but it results in the dispersion of political decision-making that fails to ensure democratic governance of policing and security provision.
ISSN:1741-2609
DOI:10.1177/1477370819882905