Regulating the Security Industry
It is widely acknowledged that the size of the security industry has increased in virtually every country around the world, often eclipsing conventional police forces in personnel numbers and expenditures. Security providers differ from law enforcement officers in many ways, yet the nature of their crime reduction activities brings them into frequent contact with citizens, drawing to the forefront issues of training, professionalism and accountability. Unlike police officers, whose training and licensing standards are well established, regulations for security providers are often minimalist or entirely absent.
This volume brings together research on regulatory regimes and strategies from around the globe, covering both the large private security sector and the expanding area of public sector non-police protective security. It examines the nature and extent of licensing and monitoring, and the minimum standards imposed on the industry by governments across the world.
The chapters in this book were originally published in various issues of the International Journal of Comparative and Applied Criminal Justice.
Mahesh K. Nalla is Professor in the School of Criminal Justice at Michigan State University, USA.
Tim Prenzler is Professor in the School of Law at the University of the Sunshine Coast, Australia.
Regulating the Security Industry
Global Perspectives
Edited by
Mahesh K. Nalla and Tim Prenzler
First published 2018
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Contents
Citation Information
The following chapters were originally published in the International Journal of Comparative and Applied Criminal Justice. When citing this material, please use the original page numbering for each article, as follows:
Preface
Preface
Tim Prenzler
International Journal of Comparative and Applied Criminal Justice, volume 41, issue 4 (November 2017), pp. 241243
Chapter 1
The Growth of Privatized Policing: Some Cross-national Data and Comparisons
Ronald van Steden and Rick Sarre
International Journal of Comparative and Applied Criminal Justice, volume 31, issue 1 (Spring 2007), pp. 5171
Chapter 2
The Proliferation of Private Security Agencies in South Africa and its Concomitant Effect on Crime Prevention and Crime Reduction
Kris Pillay
International Journal of Comparative and Applied Criminal Justice, volume 30, issue 1 (Spring 2006), pp. 95108
Chapter 3
The private security complex and its regulation in Africa: select examples from the continent
Julie Berg and Simon Howell
International Journal of Comparative and Applied Criminal Justice, volume 41, issue 4 (November 2017), pp. 273286
Chapter 4
Reforming security industry training standards: an Australian case study
Tim Prenzler, Rick Sarre and Dae Woon Kim
International Journal of Comparative and Applied Criminal Justice, volume 41, issue 4 (November 2017), pp. 323334
Chapter 6
The evolution of security industry regulation in the European Union
Mark Button and Peter Stiernstedt
International Journal of Comparative and Applied Criminal Justice, volume 41, issue 4 (November 2017), pp. 245257
Chapter 7
Critiquing the regulation of private security in the United Kingdom: views from inside the sector
Rob Mawby and Martin Gill
International Journal of Comparative and Applied Criminal Justice, volume 41, issue 4 (November 2017), pp. 259272
Chapter 8
Common past different paths: Exploring state regulation of private security industry in Eastern Europe and post-Soviet republics
Mahesh K. Nalla and Anna Gurinskaya
International Journal of Comparative and Applied Criminal Justice, volume 41, issue 4 (November 2017), pp. 305321
Chapter 9
Private security services regulations in the United States today
Robert McCrie
International Journal of Comparative and Applied Criminal Justice, volume 41, issue 4 (November 2017), pp. 287304
The following chapter was originally published in Policing and Society. When citing this material, please use the original page numbering, as follows:
Chapter 5
The Taming of the Japanese Private Security Industry
Naoko Yoshida
Policing and Society, volume 9 (1999), pp. 241261
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Notes on Contributors
Julie Berg is Associate Professor in the Public Law Department, and Director of the Institute for Safety Governance and Criminology, at the University of Cape Town, South Africa.
Mark Button is Director of the Centre for Counter Fraud Studies at the Institute of Criminal Justice Studies, University of Portsmouth, UK.
Martin Gill works for Perpetuity Research and Consultancy International, Tunbridge Wells, Kent, UK.
Anna Gurinskaya is Associate Professor in the Faculty of Liberal Arts and Sciences at St. Petersburg State University, and the Faculty of Law, at the Russian State Pedagogical University of Herzen, St. Petersburg, Russia.
Simon Howell is a Senior Researcher in the Institute for Safety Governance and Criminology at the University of Cape Town, South Africa.
Dae Woon Kim is a Lecturer in the Department of Police Administration at Yeungnam University, Republic of Korea.
