Corporate security is a form of regulation that involves
centralized management of access control, physical security,
personnel security, and information security inside an
organization. For all the research on public policing, national
security, and private contract security in sociology, criminology,
and related disciplines, little scholarly attention has been paid
to corporate security. Increasingly, corporate security is playing
an important role in municipal and other government organizations
as well as its traditional private, corporate domain. This book is
the first social scientific contribution on corporate security to
draw together the sociologies of security and policing, legal and
social theory, and debates about municipal government. In this
book, Walby and Lippert conceptualize various types of corporate
security, including its public and private forms, and analyze a
range of practices, such as asset protection and physical security
provision. The authors explore a number of heretofore neglected
themes, including use of legal knowledge, professionalization,
legitimation work, and corporate security links with other security
agencies and public police. The book provides empirical analyses of
developments in several countries, but especially Canada and the
US, where corporate security - including its entry into municipal
government - is particularly advanced. Because corporate security
cuts across security, policing, law, and government, as well as
issues of professionalization, public space and democracy, the
readership for Municipal Corporate Security in International
Context spans disciplinary and national boundaries. It is essential
reading for academics and students engaged in studying security,
urban governance, politics and legal regulation. It will be of
great interest to corporate security professionals and government
policymakers too.
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