The “New” Private Security Industry, the Private Policing of Cyberspace and the Regulatory Questions

This article explores the growth of the “new” private security industry and private policing arrangements, policing cyberspace. It argues there has been a significant change in policing which is equivalent to the “quiet revolution” associated with private policing that Shearing and Stenning observed...

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Main Author: Button, Mark 1969- (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
Published: 2020
In: Journal of contemporary criminal justice
Year: 2020, Volume: 36, Issue: 1, Pages: 39-55
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Keywords:
Cybercrime and cyberspace
Private policing
Private Security
Regulation
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Summary:This article explores the growth of the “new” private security industry and private policing arrangements, policing cyberspace. It argues there has been a significant change in policing which is equivalent to the “quiet revolution” associated with private policing that Shearing and Stenning observed in the 1970s and 1980s, marking the “second quiet revolution.” The article then explores some of the regulatory questions that arise from these changes, which have been largely ignored to date by scholars of policing and policy-makers, making some clear recommendations for the future focus of them.
ISSN:1552-5406
DOI:10.1177/1043986219890194