Private Security and Public Policing [Hardcover]

In this first major empirical study of its kind, Jones and Newburn examine the growth of private policing as well as its relationship with, and implications for, the public police service. Beginning with a critique of the sociology of policing, the authors next provide a detailed analysis of the ideas of private and public as used here, and highlight the boundaries between different forms of policing. Competing theoretical explanations for the growth of private policing are then considered using a wide array of data extracted from the first-ever survey of the private security sector in Britain. Importantly, this book also studies the local level. By way of a case study, the authors examine the full range of Britain's police-work bodies, including the public police force, investigatory and regulatory agencies attached to the national and local government, and private security organizations. Jones and Newburn effectively rethink the meaning of policing in our time.

Introduction
Part 1. Private Security and Public Policing
1. Developments in private security and public policing
2. Modernity and Metropolis
Part 2. The Private Security Industry in Britain
3. The Nature of private security
4. Private security in modern Britain
Part 3. Policing the City
5. Policing an Inner London Borough
6. The Boundaries of Public and Private Policing
Part 4. The Nature of Policing
7. Policing (post)Modern Society
8. The Future of Policing
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Mr Trevor Jones is a lecturer in Criminology at the University of Edinburgh. Prior to this he worked at the Policy Studies Institute in London for eight years.

Dr Tim Newburn is head of Crime, Justice and Youth Studies at the Policy Studies Institute and Visiting Professor, Goldsmiths College, London. He previously worked at the Home Office Research and Planning Unit and at the National Institute for Social l37