Mark Button

Security Officers and Policing (eBook, PDF)

Powers, Culture and Control in the Governance of Private Space

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This volume examines how and to what extent security officers make use of`legal tools. The work identifies these tools and draws on two case-study sites to illustrate how security officers make use of them as well as how they fit in broader security systems to secure compliance. The study also examines the occupational culture of security officers and links them into the broader systems of security that operate to police nodes of governance. The book provides insights for researchers and policy-makers seeking to develop policy for the expanding private security industry.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. April 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317058007
• Artikelnr.: 44873233

Autorenporträt

Dr Mark Button is a Principal Lecturer and Associate Head (Curriculum) at the Institute of Criminal Justice Studies, University of Portsmouth, UK. Mark is an expert on private policing and security and has written extensively on these subjects.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction; Chapter 1 Power, Authority and the Security Officer: Under-researched and Under-estimated?; Chapter 2 Researching Security Officers; Chapter 3 The Legal Tools of Security Officers in England and Wales; Chapter 4 Nodes of Governance: Pleasure Southquay and Armed Industries; Chapter 5 `Knowledge is Power?
: Security Officers
Understanding of their Legal Tools; Chapter 6 Universal Legal Tools: Consent, Coercion and Commonsense; Chapter 7 Select Legal Tools: Compliance, Consent and Commonsense; Chapter 8 Occupational Hazards: Too Many Masters, Isolation and Abuse; Chapter 9 `I
m a Security Guard Get Me Out of Here!
The Cultural Characteristics of Private Security Officers; Chapter 10 `Big Fish in Little Ponds
, Security Officers and the Policing of Private and Hybrid Space;