Private Security and the Modern State (eBook, ePUB)

Historical and Comparative Perspectives
Redaktion: Churchill, David; Leloup, Pieter; Janiewski, Dolores

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 282
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. März 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780429590450
• Artikelnr.: 58789575

Autorenporträt

David Churchill is Associate Professor in Criminal Justice in the Centre for Criminal Justice Studies, School of Law, University of Leeds, UK. Dolores Janiewski is Associate Professor in the School of History, Philosophy, Political Science and International Relations, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand. Pieter Leloup is a postdoctoral researcher (FWO) in the Department of Criminology, Penal Law and Social Law, Institute for International Research on Criminal Policy (IRCP), Ghent University, Belgium.

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword by Phillip Stenning.
Introduction. David Churchill, Dolores Janiewski & Pieter Leloup.
Part 1: Security Regimes in National Context
Chapter 1. Jacqueline E. Ross: Undercover Policing and State Power in the
United States and France from the Nineteenth to the Early Twentieth
Centuries.
Chapter 2. Wilbur Miller: The 'Right to Bear Arms' and Self-Defence in the
United States: Individualized Private Policing.
Chapter 3. Pieter Leloup: Co-Operation or Competition? Discourses on the
Role of the Private Security Sector in Belgium, 1934-1990.
Chapter 4. Adam White: Monopoly or Plurality? The Police and the Private
Security Industry in Mid-Twentieth-Century Britain.
Part 2: Techniques & Cultures of Private Security
Chapter 5. David J. Cox & Yasmin Devi-McGleish: 'Pardon Asked': Printed
Apologies as a Form of Private Security and Popular Justice in
Nineteenth-Century Britain.
Chapter 6. Stephen Robertson: The Pinkertons and the Paperwork of
Surveillance: Reporting Private Investigation in the United States,
1855-1940.
Chapter 7. Chad Pearson: 'The law or popular justice': Owen Wister and the
Legitimation of Employer-Class Violence.
Chapter 8. Francis Dodsworth: Protection: Selling Self-Defence in
Twentieth-Century Britain and the United States.
Part 3: Between Public & Private Security
Chapter 9. David Churchill: The Politics of Security in Liberal Society:
Responsibility for Crime Prevention in Mid-Victorian Britain.
Chapter 10. Florian Altenhöner: No License to Know: Political Crisis and
the Fragmentation and Privatisation of Surveillance in Germany, 1918-1920.
Chapter 11. Rhodri Jeffreys-Jones: What Burleson and Orwell Overlooked:
Private Security Provision in the USA and the United Kingdom.
Chapter 12. Dolores Janiewski & Simon Judkins: Fluid Boundaries: The
Evolution of a Private-Public Security Network in California, 1917-1952.
Conclusion. David Churchill, Dolores Janiewski & Pieter Leloup.