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Samstag 19. of Juni 2010

Obstacles to Community Policing Implementation: A comparative perspective

Community policing has been designed in the United States after the 1960s riots to address the conflict between police and minorities in disadvantaged neighborhoods. Many countries facing similar challenges have developed...
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Obstacles to Community Policing Implementation: A comparative perspective


Category: Policing the Crisis, Abstracts

Montag 14. of Juni 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 companies, at least since the early 1990s, have started to conquer public...
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Urban Security Work Spaces: Policing the Crisis - Policing in Crisis


Category: Security, Abstracts & Papers, Elend

Montag 14. of Juni 2010

Private policing in neoliberal societies

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 guarding (Selling Security: The Private Policing of Public Space, Willan: 2003) was...
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Private policing in neoliberal societies


Category: Policing the Crisis, Abstracts

Montag 14. of Juni 2010

Public-Private Security Provision in the Sex Industry

The paper asks how local prostitution regimes are reshaped in the process of urban neoliberalization. Based on a media analysis and interviews with Hamburg sex workers and regulatory stakeholders such as police, pimps,...
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Public-Private Security Provision in the Sex Industry


Category: Policing the Crisis, Abstracts

Freitag 11. of September 2009

Eric Töpfer: Video Surveillance as Crime Prevention? Appeal to Change the Perspective

CCTV - Image showing work of an graffiti artist in London who went undetected despite cameras all around What follows is the english abstract of a paper which in its german version will appear in Kriminologisches Journal 4, 2009.
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Eric Töpfer: Video Surveillance as Crime Prevention? Appeal to Change the Perspective


Category: Security, Surveillance, Abstracts & Papers