The rebirth of private policing : the rebirth of private policing

until Recently, Private Police Work Has Been Ignored By Criminologists Primarily Concerned With The Activity Of The Public Police Force. Johnston Provides An Original View Of Police History Focusing On The Emergence Of The Private Police Sector As The Embodiment Of The Growing Privatization Of Authority In Society. The Book's Analysis Of Current Developments In Private Policing Compel The Reader To Re-assess The Conventional Distinction Between Public And Private Authority So Often Taken For Granted In Social And Political Theory. the rebirth Of Private Policing Introduces A Provocative Analysis Of The Role Of Policing Of Interest To Anyone Concerned With The Question Of Social Control And The State. Book Cover......Page 1 Title......Page 4 Contents......Page 5 Preface......Page 7 Acknowledgements......Page 9 Private policing: before and after the 'new police'......Page 14 Ideologies of public and private provision......Page 36 Privatization and public policing......Page 60 The private security sector I: structure and control......Page 82 The private security sector II: activities......Page 84 Hybrid policing......Page 126 Citizenship and self-policing I: responsible citizenship......Page 148 Citizenship and self-policing II: autonomous citizenship......Page 170 New directions in the sociology of policing......Page 192 Privatization and social control......Page 214 Bibliography......Page 234 Name index......Page 254 Subject index......Page 260 Until recently, private police work has been ignored by criminologists primarily concerned with the activity of the public police force. Johnston provides an original view of police history focusing on the emergence of the private police sector as the embodiment of the growing privatization of authority in society.

The book's analysis of current developments in private policing compel the reader to re-assess the conventional distinction between "public" and "private" authority so often taken for granted in social and political theory. The Rebirth of Private Policing introduces a provocative analysis of the role of policing of interest to anyone concerned with the question of social control and the state.

these are just two of the issues addressed by Les Johnston, who argues that policing, far from being the exclusive preserve of public personnel, is an activity undertaken by a mixture of public, private, and quasi-public agents. His book reviews the history of private policing, examines developments of current concern, and finally considers the implications of these developments both for the sociology of policing and for a more general understanding of public-private relations in the late 20th century. This text argues that policing, far from being the exclusive preserve of the police, is an activity undertaken by a mixture of public, private, and quasi-public agents and proposes that the emergence of the "new police" (since 1829) signals a complete break with earlier, private modes of provision Les Johnston argues that policing, far from being the preserve of public personnel, is in fact performed by a mixture of public, private, and quasi-public agents. He reviews the history of private policing and examines its implications.