03766nam 2200661 450 991045595600332120200520144314.01-282-01459-597866120145981-4426-8187-X10.3138/9781442681873(CKB)2420000000004466(OCoLC)244767720(CaPaEBR)ebrary10218735(SSID)ssj0000304331(PQKBManifestationID)11228586(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000304331(PQKBWorkID)10277575(PQKB)10444363(CaBNvSL)thg00600276 (MiAaPQ)EBC3254830(MiAaPQ)EBC4672113(DE-B1597)465005(OCoLC)944177394(OCoLC)999360379(DE-B1597)9781442681873(Au-PeEL)EBL4672113(CaPaEBR)ebr11257796(OCoLC)958565139(EXLCZ)99242000000000446620160922h20022002 uy 0engurcn|||||||||txtccrThe new parapolice risk markets and commodified social control /George S. RigakosToronto, [Ontario] ;Buffalo, [New York] ;London, [England] :University of Toronto Press,2002.©20021 online resource (201 p.) Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph0-8020-8438-9 0-8020-3562-0 Includes bibliographical references and index.Frontmatter -- Contents -- Tables and Figures -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Theorizing the Private Police -- 2. Methods of Inquiry -- 3. The New Parapolice -- 4. Inside a Law Enforcement Company -- 5. A Parapolice Surveillance System -- 6. Solidarity, Fear, and Subculture -- Closing Remarks -- Notes -- References -- IndexPolicing in a capitalist economy is run on both state and private levels. Much existing literature on private policing assumes that the private sector is oriented almost exclusively towards loss prevention, and does not fulfil a crime-control function. In this carefully researched study, George Rigakos considers the increasingly important role of the 'parapolice' in the maintenance of social order. He argues that for-profit policing companies adopt many of the tactics and functions of the public police, and are less distinguishable from the latter than has been previously assumed in the criminological literature.Rigakos conducted a detailed ethnographic and statistical case study of Intelligarde International - a well-known Canadian security firm - and uses his results to investigate the following: How are discipline and surveillance achieved organizationally and commodified as 'product'? How do security agents themselves, and those they police, resist social control? This work offers wide-ranging theoretical implications, drawing on Foucauldian concepts such as risk, surveillance, and governmentality, and on Marxian formulations of commodity and aesthetic production. The first criminological ethnography of a contract security firm in Canada, this book will be of interest to criminologists, sociologists, lawyers, and policy-makers and to any non-academic reader with an interest in the experience of those employed in the parapolice.Police, PrivateCase studiesElectronic books.Police, Private363.28/9Rigakos George1038676MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910455956003321The new parapolice2460412UNINA