Security Officers and Policing
Powers, Culture and Control in the Governance of Private Space
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8401606 |
|---|---|
| Authors | James Mehigan (0000-0002-1982-5497, Hong Kong Metropolitan University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2007 |
| Volume | 47 |
| Issue | 6 |
| Pages | 976-978 |
| Publication date | 2007-07-07 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| 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/azm055 |
| OpenAlex | W2038082586 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 23 |
There is a growing reliance on the private security industry to fill the gap between what the state can provide in terms of policing resources and the insatiable level of demand for policing services. Despite this reliance, there has been comparatively little research into the workings of the private security industry, whereas the criminological canon on policing is vast and constantly growing. In this book, Mark Button begins to redress this anomaly and looks at a number of issues surrounding the use of private security officers (PSOs) to protect private and quasi-public spaces. The research conducted for the book is presented in two sections. The first is a description of the legal powers, or legal tools, as they are described, available to a PSO to enable him to do his job. These include the universal powers available to us all as citizens, including the power of citizen's arrest and the right of freedom of expression to ask someone to refrain from particular behaviour. In this regard, a PSO is merely a person in uniform, or a citizen paid to be in attendance. Along with universal tools, the work describes ‘select tools’ that derive from the fact that the PSO is an agent of a powerful individual or corporation and can use the powers that body has accrued in private law (e.g. employment law, contract law, the law of property) to enable them to make demands on people within their social control net. From these private arrangements, PSOs can derive the right to search (from employment contracts) and the right to remove someone from premises (as a person who refuses to leave a premises when asked to do so becomes a trespasser who can be removed using reasonable force). These universal and select tools are used by PSOs in a massive number of venues around the country and form the basis of the PSO's role.
Business · Corporate governance · Corporation · Law and economics · Political science · Private property · Redress · Sociology · European Criminal Justice and Data Protection · Law · Military and Defense Studies · Regulation and Compliance Studies
Eyes, Ears, and Wheels
Surviving on the frontline
The working life of electronic monitoring officers
They don’t do nothing’
I wannabe a copper’
The enforcement turn in plural policing? A comparative analysis of public police auxiliaries in England and Wales, France and The Netherlands
Size matters
The new political economy of private security
Discourse, practice and the production of the polysemy of security
Consuming security
The 'Bravo Mike Syndrome
Misconduct by private security officers and trust in the police
Private Security Work in Turkey
The privatization of security in Turkey
Urban Security, from Nodes to Networks
Correlates of private security officers’ job satisfaction in South Korea
Os poderes dos seguranças particulares no policiamento das propriedades privadas de massa
Segurança privada e direitos civis na cidade de São Paulo
Overlapping Values, Mutual Prejudices
Identifying consumerist privately owned public spaces
A tainted trade? Moral ambivalence and legitimation work in the private security industry1
Private security in Africa
Joint policing
| Unique citing works | 23 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,21 |
| Citation span | 2007 - 2024 (18) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |