Striking the Balance? On the Relationship Between Public and Private Security in Western Countries
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8400490 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Georg Wenzelburger (0000-0001-6195-7664, University of Kaiserslautern, corresponding author), Helge Staff (0000-0002-6671-5856, Leibniz University Hannover) |
| Year | 2022 |
| Volume | 62 |
| Issue | 5 |
| Pages | 1136-1157 |
| Publication date | 2022-09-16 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The British Journal of Criminology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0007-0955 • E-ISSN: 1464-3529 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1093/bjc/azac033 |
| OpenAlex | W4285181954 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 65 |
Much writing in comparative criminology on the punitive turn and developments in Western penal states has focused on how the state provides security to its citizens. However, the number of private guards exceeds those of police officers in many European countries, and private security services carry out numerous law and order tasks. Our paper links the literature on private security with comparative penal policy studies. It explores how the cross-national variance in the relative importance of public and private security—which we term ‘the security balance’ – can be explained by quantitatively analysing data on public and private security in 23 European countries from 2009 to 2018. We contribute to the literature on crime and politics by highlighting the significant role of private security in today’s balance of security provision
Balance (ability) · Business · National security · Order (exchange) · Political science · Politics · Private security · Public security · Punitive damages · Security studies · State (computer science) · Variance (accounting) · Accounting · Crime Patterns and Interventions · Criminal Justice and Corrections Analysis · Finance · Law · Policing Practices and Perceptions · Public Administration
States, Citizens and the Privatisation of Security
Plural Policing
The Prisoners' Dilemma
The Culture of Control
The Free Economy and the Strong State
Political Parties in Western Democracies
Differentiating among penal states
The Philosophy and Politics of Punishment and Sentencing
The Myth of Mob Rule
Incarceration Nation
Security Beyond the State
Penal Systems
Penal Populism
Punishing the Poor
Governing Through Crime
Civilizing Security
Public perceptions of private security in shopping malls
Young people’s conceptions of trust and confidence in the crime control system
Private Security and Public Policing
The Public Surveillance Functions of Private Security
Muddling between responsiveness and responsibility
Bifurcation nation
Theorising the use of private military and security companies
Private security regimes
Constraints on the growth of private policing
Networked governance and the post-regulatory state
Bringing politics back into the study of policing? A case study on the policing of social disorder in Belgium
New approaches regarding private/public security
Not just one node among many’ – plural policing in a state-dominated context
Private security and the demand for protection in contemporary britain
Crafting the Neoliberal State
Too much security
Modern Private Security
Trust, Welfare, and Political Culture
Crime, insecurity and corruption
Policing a Postmodern Society
The Transformation of Policing
The Transformation of Policing? Understanding Current Trends in Policing Systems
Rethinking Security at the Crossroad of International Relations and Criminology
Perceptions of Procedural Justice Among Young People
Policing Communal Spaces
Families of nations and public policy
The paradox of security regulation
Penal Populism and the Public Thermostat
A global trend toward law and order harshness
Panel data analysis in comparative politics
How reliable is pooled analysis in political economy? The globalization‐welfare state nexus revisited
The Retreat of the Interventionist State in Advanced Democracies
Parties, Institutions and the Politics of Law and Order
What To Do (and Not to Do) with Time-Series Cross-Section Data
The Political Economy of Imprisonment in Affluent Western Democracies, 1960-1990
Selling and Reclaiming State Sovereignty
The Securitization of Society
Privatization and Capitalist Development
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |