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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

Sonntag 06. of August 2006

By: Lori Beth Way: Lori Beth Way: Re-Policing the Poor

Missing picture of police man

Americans have become increasingly unconcerned with the numbers of individuals who are incarcerated in this country (Garland, 2001). In essence, society has come to a tacit acceptance of numerous stints of incarceration for...


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Sonntag 06. of August 2006

By: Fred Seavey: Fred Seavey: Globalizing Labor in Response to a Globalized Security Industry

Missing picture of sleeping security guard

Through mergers and acquisitions, the private security industry has become increasingly consolidated across the globe. Today, the six largest private security companies control approximately 20% of the global security market....


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Sonntag 06. of August 2006

By: Eric Töpfer: Eric Töpfer:Unleashed: The World Cup 2006 as Catalyst

Missing picture of a lot of surveillance cameras

Public area CCTV has become an essential strategy of space control and criminal justice in the post-Fordist entrepreneurial city and the neoliberal competitive state: In symbolic terms it is used to appease revanchist middle...


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Sonntag 06. of August 2006

By: Jenny Künkel: Jenny Künkel: Sex, Crime and Real Men

Missing picture of: Prostitution

"An influx of up to 40,000 prostitutes, mainly from Eastern Europe, is expected during the World Cup" - this message circulated by newspaper reports since April 2005 alarmed women's organizations and local politicians alike....


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Sonntag 06. of August 2006

By: Richard Giulianott: Richard Giulianotti: The UK Football Laboratory

Missing image of: UK Football

Football in the UK has been one of the most important venues for the application of public order legislation and new policing strategies since the 1960s. Initial policing strategies, such as supporter segregation and bans on...


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