Modern Private Security - Its Growth and Implications (From Crime and Justice - An Annual Review of Research, Volume 3, P 193-245, 1981, Michael Tonry and Norval Morris, ed. - See NCJ-80591)

• NCJ Number: 80595
• Author(s): C D Shearing; P C Stenning
• Date Published: 1981
• Length: 53 pages
• Sale Source: University of Chicago Press
• Language: English
• Country: United States of America

Annotation

The nature of modern private security, its size and growth, the causes of this growth, the role of private security, relationships between private security and public police, and legislative responses to the growth of private security are discussed.

Abstract

In North America, Europe, and elsewhere, the dramatic growth in private security in the past several decades has reshaped the structure and function of modern policing. The development of private security has been facilitated by fundamental shifts in the nature of property relations. These changes have encouraged the development of a preventive mode of policing consistent with the principles and hopes of 19th century police reformers, but they also suggest that we are moving toward being a new disciplinary society. This raises fundamental issues associated with sovereignty, justice, and individual liberty. In particular, the legal institutions regarding private property operate to enhance the potential threat to individual liberty posed by the development of modern private security. Footnotes, tables, and about 75 references are provided. (Author abstract modified)