The private and public police, or there and back
The private and public police, or there and back
Chapter 6 is the first of two consecutive inter-related chapters on policing which examine and evaluate the development of both public and private policing perspectives, primarily in the context of England and Wales but also drawing on relevant comparative theoretical and practice models when appropriate. In this chapter the customary system which preceded considerations of public policing is offered as a precursor to the development of the public sphere and centralised governance. The creation of the new police, moreover public policing, and the increasingly complementary blending of private security are then examined as counterpoints through the social, disciplinary and technological changes of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries up until the post–Second World War apex for the public service role in policing, which has frequently been termed the ‘Golden Age’.
The challenges of recession and discord which followed the post-war boom are then explored with the perceived need for the modernisation of public policing prior to the emergence of the New Right politics of the late 1970s, highlighting the impact on policing practice and its administration enacted by consecutive Conservative administrations led by Margaret Thatcher during the 1980s and the progress of the private security industry as amalgam and supplement, reflecting that this era provided the catalyst for the profound relational changes between the public, the police and private enterprise that have influenced and informed the policy of all governments that have followed, regardless of personality or ideological tinge.
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Hamerton, Christopher
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Hobbs, Suzanne
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30 September 2022
Hamerton, Christopher
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Hobbs, Suzanne
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Hamerton, Christopher and Hobbs, Suzanne
(2022)
The private and public police, or there and back.
In,
Privatising Criminal Justice: History, Neoliberal Penality and the Commodification of Crime.
1st ed.
Abingdon.
Routledge, .
(doi:10.4324/9781315709819-6).
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Chapter 6 is the first of two consecutive inter-related chapters on policing which examine and evaluate the development of both public and private policing perspectives, primarily in the context of England and Wales but also drawing on relevant comparative theoretical and practice models when appropriate. In this chapter the customary system which preceded considerations of public policing is offered as a precursor to the development of the public sphere and centralised governance. The creation of the new police, moreover public policing, and the increasingly complementary blending of private security are then examined as counterpoints through the social, disciplinary and technological changes of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries up until the post–Second World War apex for the public service role in policing, which has frequently been termed the ‘Golden Age’.
The challenges of recession and discord which followed the post-war boom are then explored with the perceived need for the modernisation of public policing prior to the emergence of the New Right politics of the late 1970s, highlighting the impact on policing practice and its administration enacted by consecutive Conservative administrations led by Margaret Thatcher during the 1980s and the progress of the private security industry as amalgam and supplement, reflecting that this era provided the catalyst for the profound relational changes between the public, the police and private enterprise that have influenced and informed the policy of all governments that have followed, regardless of personality or ideological tinge.
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