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Private Security and Public Policing - Jones, Trevor, and Newburn, Tim
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In this first major empirical study of its kind, Jones and Newburn examine the growth of private policing as well as its relationship with, and implications for, the public police service. Beginning with a critique of the sociology of policing, the authors next provide a detailed analysis of the ideas of "private" and "public" as used here, and highlight the boundaries between different forms of policing. Competing theoretical explanations for the growth of private policing are then considered using a wide array of data ...

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Private Security and Public Policing 1998, Clarendon Press, London, England

ISBN-13: 9780198265696

Hardcover