Privatization and Capitalist Development: The Case of the Private Police

Spitzer, Steven; Scull, Andrew

doi:10.1525/sp.1977.25.1.03a00030

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“…In many settings, lines have blurred between the private police and public police (Wakefield 2008, D'Alessio, Eitle, and Stolzenberg 2005, Joh 2005, Kakalik and Wildhorn 1971 University of Chicago Department of Safety and Security 2013, Nalla and Heraux 2003, Shearing and Stenning 1981, 1983, Spitzer and Scull 1977, Stenning 2000, Wakefield 2002, and many of the remaining distinctions may be more theoretical than practical. Private and public officers both seek to reduce crime and increase safety, although the "client base for private police…”

Section: The Role and Scope Of Private Policingmentioning

confidence: 99%

The Short- and Long-Run Effects of Private Law Enforcement: Evidence from University Police

Heaton

Hunt

MacDonald

et al. 2016

The Journal of Law and Economics

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Standard-Nutzungsbedingungen:Die Dokumente auf EconStor dürfen zu eigenen wissenschaftlichen Zwecken und zum Privatgebrauch gespeichert und kopiert werden.Sie dürfen die Dokumente nicht für öffentliche oder kommerzielle Zwecke vervielfältigen, öffentlich ausstellen, öffentlich zugänglich machen, vertreiben oder anderweitig nutzen.Sofern die Verfasser die Dokumente unter Open-Content-Lizenzen (insbesondere CC-Lizenzen) zur Verfügung gestellt haben sollten, gelten abweichend von diesen Nutzungsbedingungen die in der dort genannten Lizenz gewährten Nutzungsrechte. www.econstor.eu The Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) in Bonn is a local and virtual international research center and a place of communication between science, politics and business. IZA is an independent nonprofit organization supported by Deutsche Post Foundation. The center is associated with the University of Bonn and offers a stimulating research environment through its international network, workshops and conferences, data service, project support, research visits and doctoral program. IZA engages in (i) original and internationally competitive research in all fields of labor economics, (ii) development of policy concepts, and (iii) dissemination of research results and concepts to the interested public. Terms of use: Documents in D I S C U S S I O N P A P E R S E R I E SIZA Discussion Papers often represent preliminary work and are circulated to encourage discussion. Citation of such a paper should account for its provisional character. A revised version may be available directly from the author.IZA Discussion Paper No. 8800 January 2015 ABSTRACTThe Short-and Long-Run Effects of Private Law Enforcement: Evidence from University Police * Over a million people in the United States are employed in private security and law enforcement, yet very little is known about the effects of private police on crime. The current study examines the relationship between a privately-funded university police force and crime in a large U.S. city. Following an expansion of the jurisdictional boundary of the private police force, we see no short-term change in crime. However, using a geographic regression discontinuity approach, we find large impacts of private police on public safety, with violent crime in particular decreasing. These contradictory results appear to be a consequence of delayed effect of private police on crime.JEL Classification: K42, H41

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Section: The Role and Scope Of Private Policingmentioning

confidence: 99%

The Short- and Long-Run Effects of Private Law Enforcement: Evidence from University Police

Heaton

Hunt

MacDonald

et al. 2016

The Journal of Law and Economics

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“…England and Wales has reported similar increases since the creation of the Independent Police Complaints Commission 16 The difficulties posed for policing by modern and post-modern society are well documented [13,21,159,185]. 17 The body of scholarly work on this topic is particularly large but some key readings can be identified [16,85,89,105,134,144,149,224,226,255,257].…”

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“…Closely related to the idea of plural policing is privatisation [35,57,61,114,121,209,226,238,262]. While it has been around for a long time in policing, primarily in the form of the private security industry serving the needs of private sector commercial and industrial clients, it is rapidly expanding into more traditional public sector policing domains.…”

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Police governance and accountability: overview of current issues

Walsh

Conway

2011

Crime Law Soc Change

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“…During each moment of enjoyment, the authors draw attention to the myriad ways in which social control is unobûusively maintained. Spitzer and Scull 1977;Weiss 1978) and pluralist (e.g. Shearing 1992;Shearing and Steming 1983) conceptions of the private police.…”

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“…Couch 198 1 ;Klare 1975;Weiss 1978) or a conception of the state as a focal point frorn where developments in private policing may be analysed (cg. South 1988;Spitzer and Scull 1977). In either rvcnt, the rolc of the statt' is at the centre of analysis.…”

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The New Parapolice: Risk Markets and Commodified Social Control

Clarke¹,

Rigakos²

2003

Labour / Le Travail

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Privatization and Capitalist Development: The Case of the Private Police

Cited by 54 publications

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The Short- and Long-Run Effects of Private Law Enforcement: Evidence from University Police

The Short- and Long-Run Effects of Private Law Enforcement: Evidence from University Police

Police governance and accountability: overview of current issues

The New Parapolice: Risk Markets and Commodified Social Control

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