A criminology of policing and security frontiers / Randy Lippert and Kevin Walby.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lippert, Randy K., 1966- author.

Walby, Kevin, 1981- author.

Series:

New horizons in criminology.

New horizons in criminology ; [7]

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Police power.

Police--Research.

Police.

Community policing.

Police-community relations.

Crime prevention.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xii, 177 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Bristol : Bristol University Press, 2019.

Summary:

Including novel case studies, this multi-disciplinary book assembles a rich collection of policing and security frontiers, both geographical (e.g. the margins of cities) and conceptual (dispersion and credentialism) not seen or acknowledged previously, pushing criminology to the edge of its current understanding.

Contents:

The discourse of urban 'threat'Policing, securitisation and accountability; Other public corporate security; Conclusions; 7. Funding Frontiers: Public Policing, 'User Pays' Policing and Police Foundations; 'User pays' policing: tollbooths on the funding frontier; Troubles on funding frontiers; 'User pays' brokers

or 'vampires'; Police foundations: private encampments on the funding frontier; Taming the past frontier: funding for police museums; The UK funding frontier; Conclusions; 8. Conclusion: Policing and Security Frontiers; Frontiers of nuisance, space and time

Research proceduresLangford, British Columbia: reducing the need for the RCMP; The RCMP model: reassurance policing in 'E' Division; Community safety in the Province of Alberta; CSOs in Manitoba and Saskatchewan; Conclusions; 4. Conservation Officers, Dispersal and Urban Frontiers; Spatial regulation on the urban frontier; Research procedures; Dispersal policing of homeless people: cracking down on the 'illegal camper'; Aesthetics

or cleaning up the frontier; Dispersal and the resource of law; Policing networks and the frontier as contested urban space; Conclusions

Aesthetics: cleaning up the frontierPublic police relations and brokers on the frontier; Law on policing and security frontiers; Moving funding resources to the frontier; Overseeing policing and security agents on the frontier; Contested frontiers; A final word; References; Index

5. Ambassadors on City Centre FrontiersAmbassador patrols; Governing logics and security; Research procedures; Police-ambassador relations; 'Eyes and ears' surveillance; 'Clean and safe' frontiers; Ambassadors as targets; Strategies for eradicating nuisance behaviours; Conclusions; 6. Public Corporate Security Officers and the Frontiers of Knowledge and Credentialism; Making sense of municipal corporate security; Research procedures; The arrival of municipal corporate security in Canada; Security industry marketing to municipalities; Liability and Insurance; Asset protection

Intro; A CRIMINOLOGY OF POLICING AND SECURITY FRONTIERS; Contents; Notes on authors; Acknowledgements; Preface; 1. Introduction: Policing and Security Frontiers; Chapter outlines; 2. Getting to the Frontiers: Methodologies; Challenges in qualitative research on policing and security; Pitfalls in corporate security and public police research; Strategies to advance qualitative research into policing and security frontiers; Conclusions; 3. Community Safety Officers and the British Invasion: Community Policing Frontiers; Community safety officers, policy transfer and reassurance policing

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 07 Apr 2022).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781529202472

1529202477

9781529202465

1529202469

OCLC:

1084727446