Private Police and Security Governance: Mapping Emerging Trends and Future Directions

In this article, we outline a brief overview of the growth and trends in scholarly literature devoted to the study of private policing and the private security industry in crime and security governance over the past five decades. More specifically, we draw attention to the scholarship addressing pri...

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Authors: Nalla, Mahesh (Author) ; Gurinskaya, Anna (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
Published: 2020
In: Journal of contemporary criminal justice
Year: 2020, Volume: 36, Issue: 1, Pages: 101-109
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Keywords:
Police Legitimacy
Private policing
Private Security
Private security guards
Security Governance
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Summary:In this article, we outline a brief overview of the growth and trends in scholarly literature devoted to the study of private policing and the private security industry in crime and security governance over the past five decades. More specifically, we draw attention to the scholarship addressing private policing and the shifts in the discourse of the subject of security governance during this time both from theoretical and thematic foci. In doing so, we identify potential future directions in which this field of private policing studies is moving.
ISSN:1552-5406
DOI:10.1177/1043986219890208