The new parapolice : risk markets and commodified social control / / George S. Rigakos

• Autore: Rigakos George
• Pubblicazione: Toronto, [Ontario] ; ; Buffalo, [New York] ; ; London, [England] : , : University of Toronto Press, , 2002; ©2002
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (201 p.)
• Disciplina: 363.28/9
• Soggetto topico: Police, Private
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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 -- Index
• Sommario/riassunto: Policing 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: The new parapolice
• ISBN: 1-282-01459-5; 9786612014598; 1-4426-8187-X
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910455956003321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II