Publics of policing: expanding approaches to nodal policing

The rise of private security across the globe has sparked concerns that a central public good is being corporatized, and that policing will no longer be guided by the interests of ‘the public'. In this article, we argue that state policing has never been in the interests of ‘the public'. I...

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Main Author: Cooper-Knock, S. J. (Author)
Contributors: Berg, Julie ; Diphoorn, Tessa G.
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
Published: 2024
In: Policing and society
Year: 2024, Volume: 34, Issue: 1/2, Pages: 87-103
Online Access: Volltext (kostenfrei)
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Keywords:
Policing
Private Security
Public Good
South Africa
plural policing
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Summary:The rise of private security across the globe has sparked concerns that a central public good is being corporatized, and that policing will no longer be guided by the interests of ‘the public'. In this article, we argue that state policing has never been in the interests of ‘the public'. Instead, like all policing actors, the state police create and serve something more finite: ‘a public'. By exploring the ‘publics of policing' we gain important insights into the constitutive role policing plays in producing socio-political communities. We suggest that this represents an important addition to the nodal governance framework, which currently overlooks the importance of what corporate, state and civic actors create when they engage in policing.
ISSN:1477-2728
DOI:10.1080/10439463.2023.2255922