The Politics of Private Security

Regulation, Reform and Re-Legitimation

A. White

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English

Palgrave Macmillan
20 October 2010

Police & security services; Crime & criminology; International relations; Security services

Series: Crime Prevention and Security Management

This is the first in-depth conceptual and empirical analysis of the political issues, processes and themes associated with private security provision and its growth in the postwar era, examining why private security has become so prominent, what its relationship to the state is and how it can be controlled.

By: A. White
Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 216mm, Width: 140mm, Spine: 14mm
Weight: 400g
ISBN: 9780230242944
ISBN 10: 0230242944
Series: Crime Prevention and Security Management
Pages: 202
Publication Date: 20 October 2010
Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational , A / AS level , Further / Higher Education
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

PART I: THEORY AND CONTEXT Introduction Structure, Agency and Security PART II: THE POLITICS OF PRIVATE SECURITY IN BRITAIN Emerging Agendas (1945-59) The Regulation Debate (1960-69) Parliamentary Pressure (1969-79) The Neoliberal Experiments (1979-1996) New Labour, New Legitimacy (1997-2001) The Era of Regulation (2001-2010) PART III: COMPARISONS AND CONCLUSIONS Towards a New Social-Scientific Understanding Bibliography

ADAM WHITE is Lecturer in Public Policy at the University of York, UK. His research focuses on the governance of security, public policy and the changing nature of the state.

Reviews for The Politics of Private Security: Regulation, Reform and Re-Legitimation

Shotlisted for the British Society of Criminology Book Prize 2011 'Of the hundreds of books I have reviewed in a decade or more, Adam White's book The Politics of Private Security is the most significant...It deserves to be quoted for many years. By putting private security on the map, White has put himself on the map.' - Mark Rowe, Editor, Professional Security The Politics of Private Security is a well-argued, finely detailed and fascinating historical account that will be of great interest to policing and socio-legal students and academics. The quality of future scholarly research on security politics, regardless of perspective, undoubtedly will have to be measured against it.' - British Journal of Criminology