Pieter Leloup
Biographic Data
| ID | 5238936 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Pieter Leloup |
| GIVEN NAMES | Pieter |
| FAMILY NAME | Leloup |
| SIGNATURE | LELOUP P |
| AFFILIATIONS | Ghent University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9982-3116 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 10 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 7 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Policing the Flow of Goods
This article explores the evolving and layered mandates of customs authorities in the European Union through qualitative research within the Belgian customs administration. Drawing on scholarship from border security, policing of flows and police work cultures, it examines how customs officers interpret and navigate their shifting responsibilities as ‘police of goods’. While new mandates related to security and trade facilitation have emerged, th…
The framing of private security and its regulation in Belgium, 1980–2020
Over the past 40 years, the private security sector in Belgium, along with its related policies, has undergone significant transformations, with the industry establishing itself as a crucial partner in domestic security governance. Although the political context in which private security has evolved holds considerable importance in criminological scholarship, the specific processes of framing this phenomenon have attracted much less attention. Th…
Questioning Anglocentrism in plural policing studies
Recent Continental European scholarship has identified a problematic Anglocentric bias running through the field of comparative plural policing studies. It has sought to counter this bias by emphasizing a series of divergent plural policing trajectories between the more market-friendly countries in the Anglosphere and the more state-centric countries in Continental Europe. While acknowledging the significance of this corrective, we argue that it …
(Post-)crisis policing, public health and private security
While the role of the public police in the law enforcement-public health (LEPH) nexus has received increased attention in recent years, much less is known about the involvement of private security actors in this field. However, understanding the new and shifting roles of private security companies in LEPH is vitally important. During the COVID-19 pandemic, the security industry witnessed increased demands for health-care related services worldwid…
Policing, port security and crime control
View Crossmark data both formal and informal policing practices, which cannot simply be written off as the result of shifts in the legal code.The shifts in policing practices and structure might ostensibly be explained by the military presence in Baltimore during the war; this could constitute a fascinating study of the Weberian conception of the state monopoly on violence.Of course, it is possible that there is a lack of police records or newspa…
A historical perspective on crime control and private security
Since the last decade of the twentieth century, several authors have claimed that the contemporary and ‘new’ developments in (private) policing and crime control form part of the process of neo-liberal policies and rational choice approaches to crime. However, as is argued in this paper, so-called late-modern strategies and discourses of risk-reduction, loss prevention and situational crime prevention were already present in the armoury of crime …
Banditry in occupied and liberated Belgium, 1914–21. Social practices and state reactions
The specific combination of massive impoverishment and the disintegration of State authority provided a fertile ground for banditry in Belgium during World War One. The resurgence of banditry in a heavily urbanized and industrialized western European society and in an established state is difficult to reconcile with the prevailing perceptions of the history of banditry as a rural and Ancien Régime phenomenon. This indicates that indeed the histor…
(Post-)crisis policing, public health and private security
While the role of the public police in the law enforcement-public health (LEPH) nexus has received increased attention in recent years, much less is known about the involvement of private security actors in this field. However, understanding the new and shifting roles of private security companies in LEPH is vitally important. During the COVID-19 pandemic, the security industry witnessed increased demands for health-care related services worldwid…
A historical perspective on crime control and private security
Since the last decade of the twentieth century, several authors have claimed that the contemporary and ‘new’ developments in (private) policing and crime control form part of the process of neo-liberal policies and rational choice approaches to crime. However, as is argued in this paper, so-called late-modern strategies and discourses of risk-reduction, loss prevention and situational crime prevention were already present in the armoury of crime …
The framing of private security and its regulation in Belgium, 1980–2020
Over the past 40 years, the private security sector in Belgium, along with its related policies, has undergone significant transformations, with the industry establishing itself as a crucial partner in domestic security governance. Although the political context in which private security has evolved holds considerable importance in criminological scholarship, the specific processes of framing this phenomenon have attracted much less attention. Th…
Banditry in occupied and liberated Belgium, 1914–21. Social practices and state reactions
The specific combination of massive impoverishment and the disintegration of State authority provided a fertile ground for banditry in Belgium during World War One. The resurgence of banditry in a heavily urbanized and industrialized western European society and in an established state is difficult to reconcile with the prevailing perceptions of the history of banditry as a rural and Ancien Régime phenomenon. This indicates that indeed the histor…
Banditry in occupied and liberated Belgium, 1914–21. Social practices and state reactions
The specific combination of massive impoverishment and the disintegration of State authority provided a fertile ground for banditry in Belgium during World War One. The resurgence of banditry in a heavily urbanized and industrialized western European society and in an established state is difficult to reconcile with the prevailing perceptions of the history of banditry as a rural and Ancien Régime phenomenon. This indicates that indeed the histor…
A historical perspective on crime control and private security
Since the last decade of the twentieth century, several authors have claimed that the contemporary and ‘new’ developments in (private) policing and crime control form part of the process of neo-liberal policies and rational choice approaches to crime. However, as is argued in this paper, so-called late-modern strategies and discourses of risk-reduction, loss prevention and situational crime prevention were already present in the armoury of crime …
Policing, port security and crime control
View Crossmark data both formal and informal policing practices, which cannot simply be written off as the result of shifts in the legal code.The shifts in policing practices and structure might ostensibly be explained by the military presence in Baltimore during the war; this could constitute a fascinating study of the Weberian conception of the state monopoly on violence.Of course, it is possible that there is a lack of police records or newspa…
(Post-)crisis policing, public health and private security
While the role of the public police in the law enforcement-public health (LEPH) nexus has received increased attention in recent years, much less is known about the involvement of private security actors in this field. However, understanding the new and shifting roles of private security companies in LEPH is vitally important. During the COVID-19 pandemic, the security industry witnessed increased demands for health-care related services worldwid…
Questioning Anglocentrism in plural policing studies
Recent Continental European scholarship has identified a problematic Anglocentric bias running through the field of comparative plural policing studies. It has sought to counter this bias by emphasizing a series of divergent plural policing trajectories between the more market-friendly countries in the Anglosphere and the more state-centric countries in Continental Europe. While acknowledging the significance of this corrective, we argue that it …
The framing of private security and its regulation in Belgium, 1980–2020
Over the past 40 years, the private security sector in Belgium, along with its related policies, has undergone significant transformations, with the industry establishing itself as a crucial partner in domestic security governance. Although the political context in which private security has evolved holds considerable importance in criminological scholarship, the specific processes of framing this phenomenon have attracted much less attention. Th…
Policing the Flow of Goods
This article explores the evolving and layered mandates of customs authorities in the European Union through qualitative research within the Belgian customs administration. Drawing on scholarship from border security, policing of flows and police work cultures, it examines how customs officers interpret and navigate their shifting responsibilities as ‘police of goods’. While new mandates related to security and trade facilitation have emerged, th…
Political science (6 works) · Policing Practices and Perceptions (5 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Crime Patterns and Interventions (3 works) · Economics (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Private security (3 works) · Public Administration (3 works) · Public Administration (3 works) · Crime control (2 works)