Police: Public Versus Private Policing

C.A. Meerts

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-69891-5_86-1

Police: Public Versus Private Policing

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Policing is a very wide, and expanding, concept. While it naturally has a strong connection with “the police” as the entity for the execution of the monopoly over legitimate use of force by the state, policing as a concept goes much further than just the actions of the public police. For example, policing may involve regulatory agencies (see, e.g., Mascini and Van Erp 2014), civilians (see, e.g., Van Steden 2009), and private security firms (see, e.g., South 1988). In this contribution, the concept of policing will be unpacked. In current society, “policing” can no longer be seen as the sole responsibility of any state actor, and so, both the public and the private side of policing are discussed.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Encyclopedia of Security and Emergency Management
Editors	Lauren R. Shapiro, Marie-Helen Maras
Place of Publication	Cham
Publisher	Springer
Pages	775-779
Number of pages	3
Edition	Living
ISBN (Electronic)	9783319698915
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-69891-5_86-1
Publication status	Published - 2018

Keywords

Policing
Public versus private
Security
Investigations

UN SDGs

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