Private Police and Security Governance: Mapping Emerging Trends and Future Directions

In this article, we outline a brief overview of the growth and trends in scholarly literature devoted to the study of private policing and the private security industry in crime and security governance over the past five decades. More specifically, we draw attention to the scholarship addressing pri...

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Published in:Journal of contemporary criminal justice 2020-02, Vol.36 (1), p.101-109
Main Authors: Nalla, Mahesh K., Gurinskaya, Anna
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Crime
Governance
Mapping
Police
Private sector
Security services
Trends
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Summary:In this article, we outline a brief overview of the growth and trends in scholarly literature devoted to the study of private policing and the private security industry in crime and security governance over the past five decades. More specifically, we draw attention to the scholarship addressing private policing and the shifts in the discourse of the subject of security governance during this time both from theoretical and thematic foci. In doing so, we identify potential future directions in which this field of private policing studies is moving.
ISSN:1043-9862
1552-5406
DOI:10.1177/1043986219890208