Plural policing and public opinion in Brazil

Lopes, Cléber da Silva

doi:10.1057/s41284-017-0110-5

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“…This blurring was in large part due to issues of poor regulation. Consequently, much of the existing literature on Brazilian private security is focused on demarcation—attempting to define what is public and what is private (Abrahamsen and Leander, 2016; Da Silva, 2014, 2015, 2017; Zanetic, 2009, 2013).…”

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Guarding the Urban Elite: Hospitality Security in São Paulo

Larkins

Durão

2023

City & Society

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In the past decade, Brazil's largest city, São Paulo, has witnessed an exponential growth in private security. In this article, we contribute to understandings of how security shapes urban life by focusing on what we call hospitality security, which takes place in elite spaces of residence and leisure such as high‐end neighborhoods, gated communities, and shopping malls. Drawing on long‐term ethnographic fieldwork, we argue that hospitality security is a specific urban formation that combines protection with care for spaces and clients. As such, it is not just another paid protection service, but is viewed as a necessary force for creating a desirable quality of life and fostering an ease of urban circulation that is seen as absent from public spaces due to high crime and ongoing eruptions of police violence. Hospitality security thus attempts to produce urban stability and predictability by maintaining harmony in residential and commercial environments and ensuring foreseeable social interactions while requiring security guards to uphold an unequal, racialized status quo.

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Section: Private Security and The Statementioning

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Guarding the Urban Elite: Hospitality Security in São Paulo

Larkins

Durão

2023

City & Society

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“…Before going any further, it is worth emphasising just how significant this survey is. In terms of respondent numbers, it is quadruple the size of the next largest equivalent study in the UK (Rowland and Coupe 2014 ) and more than double the size of the next largest equivalent study globally (de Silva Lopes 2018 ). 15 In other words, it stands as the largest and most representative study of its kind ever produced and, moreover, the only one which takes account of the Covid-19 pandemic—and until now it has received no attention within the academic community.…”

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“… 15 Rowland and Coupe’s ( 2014 ) UK study numbered 517 respondents. Da Silva Lopes’s ( 2018 ) Brazilian study had 840 respondents. …”

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Critical workers? Private security, public perceptions and the Covid-19 pandemic

White

2022

Secur J

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This article is among the first to explore the role and status of the private security industry during the Covid-19 pandemic. Focussing on the UK case, it illustrates how even though most private security officers were designated as ‘critical workers’ in this time of crisis, performing a range of functions essential to national infrastructure and law and order, the public have been slow or reluctant to recognise the contribution of the sector. It argues that this disposition is reflective of a longstanding public ambivalence or unease towards the private security industry which can ultimately be traced to the state-centric sociological terrain of the policing field.

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Statutory regulation of the security industry under pressure: the Brazilian case

Lopes

Moraes

2019

International Journal of Comparative and Applied Criminal Justi

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Plural policing and public opinion in Brazil

Cited by 7 publications

References 51 publications

Guarding the Urban Elite: Hospitality Security in São Paulo

Guarding the Urban Elite: Hospitality Security in São Paulo

Critical workers? Private security, public perceptions and the Covid-19 pandemic

Statutory regulation of the security industry under pressure: the Brazilian case

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