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Private Security and the Modern State: Historical and Comparative Perspectives

Private Security and the Modern State: Historical and Comparative Perspectives

Churchill, David
Janiewski, Dolores
LeLoup, Pieter

Hardcover

Series: Routledge Solon Explorations in Crime and Criminal Justice H

CriminologyGeneral World History

ISBN10: 0367183498
ISBN13: 9780367183493
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Mar 18 2020
Pages: 270
Weight: 1.20
Height: 0.80 Width: 6.10 Depth: 9.30
Language: English

Based on extensive research in several international contexts, this volume provides a nuanced assessment of the historical evolution of private security and its fluid, contested and mutually constitutive relationship with state agencies, public policing and the criminal justice system.

This book provides an overview of the history of private security provision in its multiple forms including detective agencies, insurance companies, moral campaigners, employers' associations, paramilitary organizations, self-protection and vigilantism. It also explores the historical evolution of private policing and security provision in a diverse set of temporal, national and international contexts and compares the interactions between public and private security bodies, structures, strategies and practices in different countries, cultures and settings. In doing so, the volume fills the existing gaps in historical knowledge about the emergence of private and public security organizations and provides a more robust understanding of changes in the division of responsibility for security provision, law enforcement and punishment between public and private institutions.

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