Add to ORKGPrivate security services are gaining importance in the general provision of security. This Policy Brief argues that what we are seeing is not simply the transfer of security functions or responsibilities from the public sector to the private sector, but an overall expansion in both private and public security. Against this background, the paper examines the provision of security as a commodity, which can give rise to different ethical dilemmas related to accountability, transparency and other issues of ‘good governance’
This chapter discusses the normative complexity of private security. It critically debates the stigm...
Purpose: The analysis of the problem “The private security sector as an integral part of the single ...
In this article we draw upon our recent research into security consumption to answer two questions:...
Private security services are gaining importance in the general provision of security. This Policy B...
The state monopoly on the legitimate use of violence in Europe and North America has been central to...
The state monopoly on the legitimate use of violence in Europe and North America has been central to...
The global private security industry has rapidly increased over the past tenyears. The dynamics of i...
The European private security sector has grown from a handful of small companies at the end of the S...
This paper argues that security belongs to a specific category of commodities: “contested commoditie...
This literature review, by Jelle van Buuren of the Free University of Amsterdam, reveals that there ...
The aim of this special issue is to widen the existing debates on security privatization by looking ...
The proliferation of private security companies has received increasing public and academic attentio...
When defining the absence of a threat as an economic good, it is necessary to define this good using...
Scholars of security governance generally assume that the labour of private security officers can st...
The aim of this special issue is to widen the existing debates on security privatization by looking ...
This chapter discusses the normative complexity of private security. It critically debates the stigm...
Purpose: The analysis of the problem “The private security sector as an integral part of the single ...
In this article we draw upon our recent research into security consumption to answer two questions:...
Private security services are gaining importance in the general provision of security. This Policy B...
The state monopoly on the legitimate use of violence in Europe and North America has been central to...
The state monopoly on the legitimate use of violence in Europe and North America has been central to...
The global private security industry has rapidly increased over the past tenyears. The dynamics of i...
The European private security sector has grown from a handful of small companies at the end of the S...
This paper argues that security belongs to a specific category of commodities: “contested commoditie...
This literature review, by Jelle van Buuren of the Free University of Amsterdam, reveals that there ...
The aim of this special issue is to widen the existing debates on security privatization by looking ...
The proliferation of private security companies has received increasing public and academic attentio...
When defining the absence of a threat as an economic good, it is necessary to define this good using...
Scholars of security governance generally assume that the labour of private security officers can st...
The aim of this special issue is to widen the existing debates on security privatization by looking ...
This chapter discusses the normative complexity of private security. It critically debates the stigm...
Purpose: The analysis of the problem “The private security sector as an integral part of the single ...
In this article we draw upon our recent research into security consumption to answer two questions:...