Jun 14, 2010Kendra Briken & Volker EickSecurity, Conferences, 2010 Urban Security Work Spaces: Policing the Crisis - Policing in Crisis The 21st century is witnessing what has been called the »pluralization of policing« (Jones & Newburn, 2006; cf. Eick et al., 2007): Private security...
Jun 14, 2010Kendra Briken & Volker EickSecurity, Conferences, 2010 Introduction: Urban Security Work Spaces Policing the Crisis – Policing in Crisis The 21st century is witnessing what has been called the »pluralization of policing« (Jones & Newburn, 2006): Private security companies have...
Jun 14, 2010Volker EickSecurity, Conferences, 2010 Decommodification by Dispossession? (Non-)Volunteering Long-Term Unemployed on the Security Market In January 2005, the then Social Democratic-Green Government of Germany introduced the so-called Hartz Laws (Hartz IV). With this legislation,...
Jun 14, 2010Eric TöpferSecurity, Conferences, 2010 Phoenix from the Ashes? Urban CCTV Surveillance in Crisis In face of the global recession capitalism was recently suspected to be the "biggest enemy of surveillance" (Murakami Wood 2009) as operating costs...
Jun 14, 2010Francois BonnetSecurity, Conferences, 2010 Obstacles to Community Policing Implementation. Community policing has been designed in the United States after the 1960s riots to address the conflict between police and minorities in...
Jun 14, 2010Alison WakefieldSecurity, Conferences, 2010 Private policing in neoliberal societies .This one needs more text The purpose of this paper is to provide a reflection on key developments in ‘plural policing’ since the author’s case study research on security...
Jun 14, 2010James SheptyckiSecurity, Conferences, 2010 The World Gun Crisis The paper will explore the idea of weaponization - specifically 'pistolization' – as a manifestation of contemporary crisis. Using examples of...
Jun 14, 2010Massimiliano MuloneSecurity, Conferences, 2010 When private and public policing merge: Thoughts on commercial policing It’s common knowledge that the field of security has gone through dramatic transformations, these last years, most notably because of the growth of...
Jun 14, 2010Nik TheodoreSecurity, Conferences, 2010 Razing Arizona: Policing and the Politics of Citizenship On April 23, 2010 Arizona Governor Jan Brewer signed SB 1070 into law. The new law, which will go into effect on July 29, 2010, requires local law...
