TY  - BOOK
AU  - Churchill,David
AU  - Janiewski,Dolores E.
AU  - Leloup,Pieter
TI  - Private security and the modern state: historical and comparative perspectives 
T2  - Routledge SOLON explorations in crime and criminal justice histories
SN  - 9780367183493 (hbk.)
AV  - HV8290 .P755 2020
PY  - 2020///
CY  - London
PB  - Routledge
KW  - Private security services
KW  - History
KW  - Internal security
KW  - Law enforcement
KW  - Criminal justice, Administration of
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index
N2  - "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 organisations, 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 organisations 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. This comprehensive volume will be of great interest to scholars and students of history, criminology, sociology, political science, security studies, policing, criminal justice and law"-- Provided by publisher
ER  -