RT Article
T1 Publics of policing: expanding approaches to nodal policing
JF Policing and society
VO 34
IS 1/2
SP 87
OP 103
A1 Cooper-Knock, S. J.
A2 Berg, Julie
A2 Diphoorn, Tessa G. 1984-
LA English
YR 2024
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1880506211
AB 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.
K1 Public Good
K1 South Africa
K1 plural policing
K1 Policing
K1 Private Security
DO 10.1080/10439463.2023.2255922