(Source: Routledge)
Routledge is publishing a new
book on the history of private security from a comparative perspective.
ABOUT THE BOOK
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 constitutiverelationship 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.
ABOUT THE EDITORS
David Churchill is
Associate Professor in Criminal Justice in the Centre for Criminal Justice
Studies, School of Law, University of Leeds, U.K.
Dolores Janiewski is
Associate Professor in the School of History, Philosophy, Political Science
& International Relations, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand.
Pieter Leloup is a
postdoctoral researcher (FWO) in the Department of Criminology, Penal Law and
Social Law, Institute for International Research on Criminal Policy (IRCP),
Ghent University, Belgium.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Foreword by Phillip Stenning.
Introduction. David Churchill,
Dolores Janiewski & Pieter Leloup.
Part 1: Security Regimes in
National Context
Chapter 1. Jacqueline E. Ross:
Undercover Policing and State Power in the United States and France from the
Nineteenth to the Early Twentieth Centuries.
Chapter 2. Wilbur Miller: The
‘Right to Bear Arms’ and Self-Defence in the United States: Individualized
Private Policing.
Chapter 3. Pieter Leloup:
Co-Operation or Competition? Discourses on the Role of the Private Security
Sector in Belgium, 1934-1990.
Chapter 4. Adam White: Monopoly
or Plurality? The Police and the Private Security Industry in
Mid-Twentieth-Century Britain.
Part 2: Techniques &
Cultures of Private Security
Chapter 5. David J. Cox & Yasmin
Devi-McGleish: ‘Pardon Asked’: Printed Apologies as a Form of Private Security
and Popular Justice in Nineteenth-Century Britain.
Chapter 6. Stephen Robertson: The
Pinkertons and the Paperwork of Surveillance: Reporting Private Investigation
in the United States, 1855-1940.
Chapter 7. Chad Pearson: ‘The law
or popular justice’: Owen Wister and the Legitimation of Employer-Class
Violence.
Chapter 8. Francis Dodsworth:
Protection: Selling Self-Defence in Twentieth-Century Britain and the United
States.
Part 3: Between Public &
Private Security
Chapter 9. David Churchill: The
Politics of Security in Liberal Society: Responsibility for Crime Prevention in
Mid-Victorian Britain.
Chapter 10. Florian Altenhöner:
No License to Know: Political Crisis and the Fragmentation and Privatisation of
Surveillance in Germany, 1918-1920.
Chapter 11. Rhodri
Jeffreys-Jones: What Burleson and Orwell Overlooked: Private Security Provision
in the USA and the United Kingdom.
Chapter 12. Dolores Janiewski
& Simon Judkins: Fluid Boundaries: The Evolution of a Private-Public
Security Network in California, 1917-1952.
Conclusion. David Churchill,
Dolores Janiewski & Pieter Leloup.
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