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The new parapolice : risk markets and commodified social control / George S. Rigakos.
LIBRA HV8099.C23 T677 2002
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Rigakos, George.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Intelligarde International--Case studies.
- Intelligarde International.
- Police, Private--Case studies.
- Police, Private.
- Genre:
- Case studies.
- Physical Description:
- vi, 182 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Toronto ; Buffalo : University of Toronto Press, [2002]
- Contents:
- 1 Theorizing the Private Police 9
- Marxian Approaches 10
- Foucauldian Approaches 14
- Governmentality and Risk: A Marxist Critique 16
- Parapolicing Risk Markets 22
- 2 Methods of Inquiry 26
- Critical Ethnography 27
- Formal Interviews 29
- Occurrence, Personnel, and Bannings Databases 32
- Communications and Other Internal Documents 35
- The Media 35
- 3 The New Parapolice 37
- Public vs Private Policing: The Problematic Dichotomy 39
- Powers of the Parapolice 48
- Private Justice 53
- Public vs Private Law Enforcement: A Statistical Comparison 54
- A 'Trip through the Sewer' 62
- 4 Inside a Law Enforcement Company 71
- Recruitment 72
- Pre-employment Testing 73
- Training 74
- 'Rookies' 81
- Who Are the Parapolice? 83
- Race, Class, Gender 85
- 5 A Parapolice Surveillance System 98
- Perpetual Examination 100
- Hyperpanoptic Fantasies 107
- Selling Surveillance in Risk Markets 113
- 6 Solidarity, Fear, and Subculture 119
- Resistance from Within: The Art of 'Ghosting' 120
- Crime Fighting and the Wannabe Culture 126
- Resistance from Below: Safety in Numbers 135
- 'TIPs' and 'Swarmings': The Dialectics of Fear 138
- On Theory 148
- Future Research 152
- On Governance 153.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0802035620
- 0802084389
- OCLC:
- 47365357
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