Dec 07, 2011Volker EickSecurity, Private Security A Charter for Boarding: The German Government Contracts out Counter-Piracy Operations On high seas, ashore and in the air: In recent years, the various federal governments in Germany have failed to turn the armed forces into another...
Nov 23, 2011Luis FernandezSecurity Luis Fernandez: On Arizona's immigration laws and policing as counter insurgency We talked to our comrade and colleague Luis Fernandez, author of "Policing Dissent" (2008) and co-author of "Shutting Down the Streets" (2011), in...
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...
