“It Often Feels Like You Are Talking to a Wall”: Police and Private Security Responses to the Campaign to Protect Pont Valley Against Opencast Coal Extraction
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DOI: 10.1007/s10612-021-09571-3
Abstract: Conflict between police, private security and political protesters is a topic that has been researched widely in criminology and other disciplines (e.g., Choudry 2019; Gilmore et al. 2019; Goyes and South 2017; Jackson et al.… read more here.
Keywords: criminology; police private; private security; pont valley ... See more keywords
Critical workers? Private security, public perceptions and the Covid-19 pandemic
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DOI: 10.1057/s41284-022-00339-0
Abstract: This article is among the first to explore the role and status of the private security industry during the Covid-19 pandemic. Focussing on the UK case, it illustrates how even though most private security officers… read more here.
Keywords: critical workers; private security; security public; security ... See more keywords
The private security complex and its regulation in Africa: select examples from the continent
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DOI: 10.1080/01924036.2017.1364280
Abstract: ABSTRACT This article aims to provide an overview of the primary trends and developments of the domestic private security industry in select countries in Africa, while also further reflecting on a selection of operational challenges… read more here.
Keywords: private security; security; complex regulation; regulation africa ... See more keywords
Correlates of private security officers’ job satisfaction in South Korea
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DOI: 10.1080/01924036.2021.1899001
Abstract: This exploratory research examines the determinants of private security officer’s job satisfaction. Despite the growing private security industries and their influence on security governance around... read more here.
Keywords: private security; correlates private; job satisfaction; security ... See more keywords
The ‘Bravo Mike Syndrome': private security culture and racial profiling in South Africa*
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DOI: 10.1080/10439463.2015.1089869
Abstract: ABSTRACT This article analyses how issues of race influence the occupational culture of the armed response sector, a particular part of the private security industry, in Durban, South Africa. In addition to analysing the racial… read more here.
Keywords: south africa; private security; bravo mike; racial profiling ... See more keywords
Reproductions of global security: accounting for the private security household
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DOI: 10.1080/14616742.2018.1516512
Abstract: ABSTRACT This article shows how private security households exist at the nexus of two foundational logics of contemporary warfare—militarism and neoliberalism. The celebration of neoliberalism and normalization of militarism allow the private security industry to… read more here.
Keywords: work; security household; private security; global security ... See more keywords
Using 18 U.S.C. Section 242 to Prosecute Private Security Personnel for Civil Rights Violations: An Analysis
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DOI: 10.1080/19361610.2018.1498253
Abstract: Abstract This exploratory study examines the use of U.S. federal statute 18 U.S.C. § 242 in criminally prosecuting private security personnel in the United States for violating a person’s rights under the U.S. Constitution. The analysis… read more here.
Keywords: private security; security personnel; analysis; security ... See more keywords
Valour for Money? Contested Commodification in the Market for Security
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DOI: 10.1093/bjc/azy004
Abstract: Scholars of security governance generally assume that the labour of private security officers can straightforwardly be transformed into discrete commodities. We argue, by contrast, that it is extremely difficult to commodify the labour of private… read more here.
Keywords: security officers; private security; valour money; security ... See more keywords
Crime, insecurity and corruption: Considering the growth of urban private security
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DOI: 10.1177/0042098017732691
Abstract: We call into question the growing presence of private security companies (PSCs) in cities throughout the world. Though PSCs have grown enormously in recent decades, there exist few academic analyses to consider their broad-reaching effects.… read more here.
Keywords: private security; urban private; crime insecurity; security ... See more keywords
Police guns and private security cars. Ordering the state through socio-material policing assemblages in Nairobi
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DOI: 10.1177/0263775820923374
Abstract: In this article, I show how the work of heterogeneous security and policing assemblages in Nairobi hinges upon and reproduces physical urban borders, and consequentially enacts social orders. While these assemblages enrol a diverse collection… read more here.
Keywords: state; assemblages nairobi; private security; security ... See more keywords
‘Lowering the threshold of effective deterrence’—Testing the effect of private security agents in public spaces on crime: A randomized controlled trial in a mass transit system
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DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0187392
Abstract: Supplementing local police forces is a burgeoning multibillion-dollar private security industry. Millions of formal surveillance agents in public settings are tasked to act as preventative guardians, as their high visibility presence is hypothesized to create… read more here.
Keywords: police; private security; security; security agents ... See more keywords