RT Article T1 Private Police and Security Governance: Mapping Emerging Trends and Future Directions JF Journal of contemporary criminal justice VO 36 IS 1 SP 101 OP 109 A1 Nalla, Mahesh A2 Gurinskaya, Anna LA English YR 2020 UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1794066985 AB 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. K1 Police Legitimacy K1 Private policing K1 Private Security K1 Private security guards K1 Security Governance DO 10.1177/1043986219890208