| Description |
1 online resource (195 pages) |
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Routledge Frontiers of Criminal Justice |
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Routledge frontiers of criminal justice.
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| Contents |
Cover; Half Title ; Title Page ; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; List of tables; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. Theorizing corporate security (with Rhys Steckle); Introduction; Private/contract security and corporate security research; A new typology of corporate security; Municipal Corporate Security (MCS): a first glance; Strengths and limits of the typology; Discussion; Excursus: our research on corporate security; Notes; 2. Municipal Corporate Security and legal knowledge; Introduction; Law, security, and the urban; Municipal corporate security and legal knowledges |
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Trespass law and nuisanceLicensing regulations for security professionals; Litigation and legislative reasons for security; Labor and employment law; Privacy legislation; Workplace violence and health and safety legislation; Discussion; Note; 3. Expertise and professionalization of Municipal Corporate Security (with Alex Luscombe); Introduction; Security, threats experts, and professionalization; Analysis; ASIS International: certification and professionalization; A sense of expertise and professional status; Networks and a sense of expertise; Discussion; Notes |
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4. Making sense of Municipal Corporate Security and surveillanceIntroduction; Conceptualizing MCS surveillance; MCS-deployed surveillance; Discussion; Note; 5. Risk and corporate security in municipalities (with Alex Luscombe); Introduction; Using sociologies of risk to understand corporate security; Analysis; Discussion; Notes; 6. Corporate security, public police, and private security (with Blair Wilkinson); Introduction; Literature on corporate security, public police, and private security; What Municipal Corporate Security staff say about public police |
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What Municipal Corporate Security staff say about private corporate securityWhat Municipal Corporate Security staff say about contract private security; Discussion; Note; 7. Municipal Corporate Security in international perspective; Introduction; Municipal Corporate Security, security governance, and security consumption; Municipal Corporate Security in Canada; Municipal Corporate Security in the United States; The difference Homeland Security makes: the Urban Area Security Initiative (UASI); Discussion; Notes; 8. A visit to the security industry's grand bazaar; Introduction; The expo scene |
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Governments as target consumersExposing surveillance; The security community; The security spiral; Discussion; Notes; 9. Accountability and critiques of corporate security; Introduction; Corporate security as value subtraction; The corporatization critique; Corporate security as ideological camouflage; Corporate security creep; Accountability and account ability; Discussion; Note; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index |
| Summary |
Corporate security is a form of regulation that involves centralized management of access control, physical security, personnel security, and information security inside an organization. For all the research on public policing, national security, and private contract security in sociology, criminology, and related disciplines, little scholarly attention has been paid to corporate security. Increasingly, corporate security is playing an important role in municipal and other government organizations as well as its traditional private, corporate domain. This book is the first social scientific co |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Business enterprises -- Security measures
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Business enterprises -- Security measures
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Lippert, Randy K
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| ISBN |
9781317907190 |
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1317907191 |
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