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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.
Policing Cities brings together international scholars from
numerous disciplines to examine urban policing, securitization, and
regulation in nine countries and the conceptual issues these
practices raise. Chapters cover many of the world's major cities,
including New York, Beijing, Paris, London, Berlin, Mexico City,
Johannesburg, Rio de Janeiro, Boston, Melbourne, and Toronto, as
well as other urban areas in Britain, United States, South Africa,
Germany, Australia and Georgia. The collection examines the
activities and reforms of the traditional public police, but also
those of emerging public and private policing agents and spaces
that fall outside the public police's purview and which previously
have received little attention. It explores dramatic changes in
public policing arrangements and strategies, exclusion of urban
homeless people, new forms of urban surveillance and legal
regulation, and securitization and militarization of urban spaces.
The core argument in the volume is that cities are more than mere
background for policing, securitization and regulation. Policing
and the city are intimately intertwined. This collection also
reveals commonalities in the empirical interests, methodological
preferences, and theoretical concerns of scholars working in these
various disciplines and breaks down barriers among them. This is
the first collection on urban policing, regulation, and
securitization with such a multi-disciplinary and international
character. This collection will have a wide readership among upper
level undergraduate and graduate level students in several
disciplines and countries and can be used in geography/urban
studies, legal and socio-legal studies, sociology, anthropology,
political science, and criminology courses.
Sanctuary Practices in International Perspectives examines the
diverse, complex, and mutating practice of providing sanctuary to
asylum-seekers. The ancient tradition of church sanctuary underwent
a revival in the late 1970s. Immigrants living without legal status
and their supporters, first in the United Kingdom, and then in the
US, Canada, and elsewhere in Europe, have resorted to sanctuary
practices to avoid and resist arrest and deportation by state
authorities. Sanctuary appeared amidst a dramatic rise in
asylum-seekers arriving in Western countries and a simultaneous
escalation in national and international efforts to discourage and
control their arrival and presence through myriad means, including
deportation. This collection of papers by prominent US, European,
Canadian, and Japanese scholars is the first to place contemporary
sanctuary practices in international, theoretical, and historical
perspective. Moving beyond isolated case studies of sanctuary
activities and movements, it reveals sanctuary as a far more
complex, varied, theoretically-rich, and institutionally-adaptable
set of practices.
In many countries camera surveillance has become commonplace, and
ordinary citizens and consumers are increasingly aware that they
are under surveillance in everyday life. Camera surveillance is
typically perceived as the archetype of contemporary surveillance
technologies and processes. While there is sometimes fierce debate
about their introduction, many others take the cameras for granted
or even applaud their deployment. Yet what the presence of
surveillance cameras actually achieves is still very much in
question. International evidence shows that they have very little
effect in deterring crime and in 'making people feel safer', but
they do serve to place certain groups under greater official
scrutiny and to extend the reach of today's 'surveillance society'.
Eyes Everywhere provides the first international perspective on the
development of camera surveillance. It scrutinizes the quiet but
massive expansion of camera surveillance around the world in recent
years, focusing especially on Canada, the UK and the USA but also
including less-debated but important contexts such as Brazil,
China, Japan, Mexico, South Africa and Turkey. Containing both
broad overviews and illuminating case-studies, including cameras in
taxi-cabs and at mega-events such as the Olympics, the book offers
a valuable oversight on the status of camera surveillance in the
second decade of the twenty-first century. The book will be
fascinating reading for students and scholars of camera
surveillance as well as policy makers and practitioners from the
police, chambers of commerce, private security firms and privacy-
and data-protection agencies.
In many countries camera surveillance has become commonplace, and
ordinary citizens and consumers are increasingly aware that they
are under surveillance in everyday life. Camera surveillance is
typically perceived as the archetype of contemporary surveillance
technologies and processes. While there is sometimes fierce debate
about their introduction, many others take the cameras for granted
or even applaud their deployment. Yet what the presence of
surveillance cameras actually achieves is still very much in
question. International evidence shows that they have very little
effect in deterring crime and in 'making people feel safer', but
they do serve to place certain groups under greater official
scrutiny and to extend the reach of today's 'surveillance society'.
Eyes Everywhere provides the first international perspective on the
development of camera surveillance. It scrutinizes the quiet but
massive expansion of camera surveillance around the world in recent
years, focusing especially on Canada, the UK and the USA but also
including less-debated but important contexts such as Brazil,
China, Japan, Mexico, South Africa and Turkey. Containing both
broad overviews and illuminating case-studies, including cameras in
taxi-cabs and at mega-events such as the Olympics, the book offers
a valuable oversight on the status of camera surveillance in the
second decade of the twenty-first century. The book will be
fascinating reading for students and scholars of camera
surveillance as well as policy makers and practitioners from the
police, chambers of commerce, private security firms and privacy-
and data-protection agencies.
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.
Policing and security provision are subjects central to
criminology. Yet there are newer and neglected forms that are
currently unscrutinised. By examining the work of community safety
officers, ambassador patrols, conservation officers, and private
police foundations, who operate on and are animated by a frontier,
this book reveals why criminological inquiry must reach beyond
traditional conceptual and methodological boundaries in the 21st
century. Including novel case studies, this multi-disciplinary and
international book assembles a rich collection of policing and
security frontiers both geographical (e.g. the margins of cities)
and conceptual (dispersion and credentialism) not seen or
acknowledged previously.
Policing and security provision are subjects central to
criminology. Yet there are newer and neglected forms that are
currently unscrutinised. By examining the work of community safety
officers, ambassador patrols, conservation officers, and private
police foundations, who operate on and are animated by a frontier,
this book reveals why criminological inquiry must reach beyond
traditional conceptual and methodological boundaries in the 21st
century. Including novel case studies, this multi-disciplinary and
international book assembles a rich collection of policing and
security frontiers both geographical (e.g. the margins of cities)
and conceptual (dispersion and credentialism) not seen or
acknowledged previously.
Policing Cities brings together international scholars from
numerous disciplines to examine urban policing, securitization, and
regulation in nine countries and the conceptual issues these
practices raise. Chapters cover many of the world's major cities,
including New York, Beijing, Paris, London, Berlin, Mexico City,
Johannesburg, Rio de Janeiro, Boston, Melbourne, and Toronto, as
well as other urban areas in Britain, United States, South Africa,
Germany, Australia and Georgia. The collection examines the
activities and reforms of the traditional public police, but also
those of emerging public and private policing agents and spaces
that fall outside the public police's purview and which previously
have received little attention. It explores dramatic changes in
public policing arrangements and strategies, exclusion of urban
homeless people, new forms of urban surveillance and legal
regulation, and securitization and militarization of urban spaces.
The core argument in the volume is that cities are more than mere
background for policing, securitization and regulation. Policing
and the city are intimately intertwined. This collection also
reveals commonalities in the empirical interests, methodological
preferences, and theoretical concerns of scholars working in these
various disciplines and breaks down barriers among them. This is
the first collection on urban policing, regulation, and
securitization with such a multi-disciplinary and international
character. This collection will have a wide readership among upper
level undergraduate and graduate level students in several
disciplines and countries and can be used in geography/urban
studies, legal and socio-legal studies, sociology, anthropology,
political science, and criminology courses.
This interdisciplinary collection places corporate security in a
theoretical and international context. Arguing that corporate
security is becoming the primary form of security in the
twenty-first century, it explores a range of issues including
regulation, accountability, militarization, strategies of
securitization and practitioner techniques.
This interdisciplinary collection places corporate security in a
theoretical and international context. Arguing that corporate
security is becoming the primary form of security in the
twenty-first century, it explores a range of issues including
regulation, accountability, militarization, strategies of
securitization and practitioner techniques.
Sanctuary Practices in International Perspectives examines the
diverse, complex, and mutating practice of providing sanctuary to
asylum-seekers. The ancient tradition of church sanctuary underwent
a revival in the late 1970s. Immigrants living without legal status
and their supporters, first in the United Kingdom, and then in the
US, Canada, and elsewhere in Europe, have resorted to sanctuary
practices to avoid and resist arrest and deportation by state
authorities. Sanctuary appeared amidst a dramatic rise in
asylum-seekers arriving in Western countries and a simultaneous
escalation in national and international efforts to discourage and
control their arrival and presence through myriad means, including
deportation. This collection of papers by prominent US, European,
Canadian, and Japanese scholars is the first to place contemporary
sanctuary practices in international, theoretical, and historical
perspective. Moving beyond isolated case studies of sanctuary
activities and movements, it reveals sanctuary as a far more
complex, varied, theoretically-rich, and institutionally-adaptable
set of practices.
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