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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| Sprache: | Englisch |
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2021
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European journal of criminology
Jahr: 2021, Band: 18, Heft: 6, Seiten: 899-917 |
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| Zusammenfassung: | 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. |
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| ISSN: | 1741-2609 |
| DOI: | 10.1177/1477370819882905 |