Handbook on public and private security / Erwin A. Blackstone, Simon Hakim, Brian Meehan, editors.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Blackstone, Erwin A., 1942- editor.

Hakim, Simon, 1944- editor.

Meehan, Brian J., editor.

ProQuest ebook central

Lipman Criminology Library Fund.

Series:

Competitive government: public private partnerships

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Police.

Private security services.

Public-private sector cooperation.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xii, 412 pages) : illustrations (some color).

Place of Publication:

Cham : Springer, [2023]

Contents:

Intro

Acknowledgments

Contents

List of Editors and Contributors

Editors

Contributors

An Overview of Private Security and Policing in the United States

1 Introduction

2 Recent Trends

3 The US Investigative Services Industry

4 The US Guard Services Industry

5 Private Security Guards and Crime

6 The Relationship Between Police and Private Security

7 Discussion

8 Conclusion

References

Part I: General Security Issues

Allocating Police and Security: Comparing Public and Private Processes and Consequences

1 Introduction

2 Is Policing a Private Good, Public Good, or Something Else?

2.1 What Else Do Police Do?

2.2 What About Policing (and Security) Services That Actually Are Non-rivalrous and Non-excludable?

2.3 Rivalrous Use of Policing

2.4 Excludability and Police Services

3 Rationing Public Police

3.1 Politics, Legislation and Police Rationing

3.2 Interest Group Strategies by Police

3.3 Rationing by Time or Merit: Excess Demand and Police Discretion

3.4 Will Increase Budgets Solve the Problems of Excess Demand and Police Discretion?

3.5 Police Discretion and Discrimination

3.6 Discretion and Police Abuse

3.7 Barriers to Disciplining Police for Abuse: Unions, Qualified Immunity, and Indemnification

4 Allocation of Private Security and Resulting Behavior

4.1 Private Investigation and Pursuit

4.2 Abuse by Suppliers of Private Crime Control

4.3 Political Interference in Markets for Private Security

5 Conclusions

Public Space Crime Prevention Partnerships: Reviewing the Evidence

1 Background: Public-Private Partnerships & Crime Theories

1.1 Types of Police/Private Security Collaboration

1.2 Crime Prevention Theory and the Security Industry

2 Police and Security Foot Patrols

3 Business Improvement Districts

4 Evaluated Intervention Case Studies

5 Best Practice Principles

6 Conclusion

Australian Public and Private Crime Prevention Partnerships in Cyberspace

2 The Modern Phenomenon of Cybercrime

3 Policing Cybercrime

4 The Specialist Private Sector in Cybercrime Prevention

4.1 Digital Imaging and Other Surveillance Tools

4.2 Metadata Retention

5 Concerns about Public/Private Partnerships

6 The Right Balance

7 Co-opting Private Sector Prevention

7.1 Legislation

7.2 Case Study: Project Sunbird

8 What Is to Be Done?

9 Conclusion

Private Security Confounds Estimates of Public Police and Crime

2 Data

3 Models

4 Results

4.1 Descriptive

4.1.1 Property Crime

4.1.2 Violent Crime

4.2 An Attempt at Causal Estimates

4.2.1 Method and Data

4.2.2 Not Holding Private Security Constant

4.2.3 Association Between COPS Grants and Private Security

4.2.4 Public Security and Crime, Holding Private Security Constant

5 Conclusion

Appendix

Notes:

Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI Available via World Wide Web.

Online resource; title from PDF title page (SpringerLink, viewed November 21, 2023).

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Lipman Criminology Library Fund.

ISBN:

9783031424069

3031424069

Publisher Number:

99996080102

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.