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Conference Announcement: Urban Security Work Spaces Policing the Crisis - Policing in Crisis Read

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New articles and abstracts

Montag 14. of Juni 2010

By: Eric Töpfer: 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 of public area CCTV are cut back and an increasing number of cameras is left...


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Category: Policing the Crisis, Abstracts

Montag 14. of Juni 2010

By: Alison Wakefield: 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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Category: Policing the Crisis, Abstracts

Montag 14. of Juni 2010

By: Massimiliano Mulone: 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 the private security industry. As stated by Ian Loader or Lucia Zedner, this is...


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Category: Policing the Crisis, Abstracts

Montag 14. of Juni 2010

By: Nik Theodore: 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 enforcement authorities to check the immigration status of any person where...


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