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Author Rigakos, George, author

Title The new parapolice : risk markets and commodified social control / George S. Rigakos
Published Toronto ; Buffalo : University of Toronto Press, [2002]
Toronto ; Buffalo : University of Toronto Press, c2002
©2002

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Description vi, 182 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
Contents 1. Theorizing the Private Police -- Marxian Approaches -- Foucauldian Approaches -- Governmentality and Risk: A Marxist Critique -- Parapolicing Risk Markets -- 2. Methods of Inquiry -- Critical Ethnography -- Formal Interviews -- Occurrence, Personnel, and Bannings Databases -- Communications and Other Internal Documents -- The Media -- 3. The New Parapolice -- Public vs. Private Policing: The Problematic Dichotomy -- Powers of the Parapolice -- Private Justice -- Public vs. Private Law Enforcement: A Statistical Comparison -- A 'Trip through the Sewer' -- 4. Inside a Law Enforcement Company -- Recruitment -- Pre-employment Testing -- Training -- 'Rookies' -- Who Are the Parapolice? -- Race, Class, Gender -- 5. A Parapolice Surveillance System -- Perpetual Examination -- Hyperpanoptic Fantasies -- Selling Surveillance in Risk Markets -- 6. Solidarity, Fear, and Subculture -- Resistance from Within: The Art of 'Ghosting' -- Crime Fighting and the Wannabe Culture
Resistance from Below: Safety in Numbers -- 'TIPs' and 'Swarmings': The Dialectics of Fear
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages [167]-180) and index
Subject Intelligarde International -- Case studies.
Intelligarde International -- Cas, Études de
Intelligarde International.
Police, Private -- Case studies.
Police privée -- Cas, Étude de
Genre/Form Case studies.
LC no. 2002284626
ISBN 0802035620 (bound)
0802084389 (paperback)