RT Article T1 Marketization in a state-centred policing context: the case of Sweden JF European journal of criminology VO 18 IS 6 SP 899 OP 917 A1 Hansen Löfstrand, Cecilia LA English YR 2021 UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1789224160 AB 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. K1 Policing K1 Private Security K1 Marketization K1 Community level DO 10.1177/1477370819882905