Cultural and symbolic capital in the market for security: police-private security relations in Mexico and the United Kingdom

Recent scholarship has observed how private security actors often draw upon the cultural and symbolic capital of the police in their everyday operations. This practice can range from issuing frontline private security officers with police-like uniforms and patrol cars to recruiting former senior pol...

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Authors: Puck, Logan (Author) ; White, Adam (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
Published: 2024
In: Policing and society
Year: 2024, Volume: 34, Issue: 1/2, Pages: 27-41
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