Regulating the Security Industry

Global Perspectives

Mahesh Nalla, Tim Prenzler

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Routledge
11 July 2018

Crime & criminology; Security services

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 the International Journal of Comparative and Applied Criminal Justice.

Edited by: Mahesh Nalla, Tim Prenzler
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 246mm, Width: 174mm,
Weight: 453g
ISBN: 9781138541702
ISBN 10: 1138541702
Pages: 152
Publication Date: 11 July 2018
Audience: College/higher education , Primary , A / AS level
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Preface Introduction 1. The Growth of Privatized Policing: Some Cross-national Data and Comparisons 2. The Proliferation of Private Security Agencies in South Africa and its Concomitant Effect on Crime Prevention and Crime Reduction 3. The private security complex and its regulation in Africa: select examples from the continent 4. Reforming security industry training standards: an Australian case study 5. The Taming of the Japanese Private Security Industry 6. The evolution of security industry regulation in the European Union 7. Critiquing the regulation of private security in the United Kingdom: views from inside the sector 8. Common past - different paths: Exploring state regulation of private security industry in Eastern Europe and post-Soviet republics 9. Private security services regulations in the United States today

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.