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Policing Victorian Public Transport: Extending the Police Domain
Author(s) -
Corns Chris,
Simpson Brian
Publication year - 1988
Publication title -
australian journal of social issues
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.417
H-Index - 30
eISSN - 1839-4655
pISSN - 0157-6321
DOI - 10.1002/j.1839-4655.1988.tb00851.x
Subject(s) - project commissioning , bureaucracy , public security , publishing , state (computer science) , public domain , political science , social control , law , public transport , crime control , sociology , criminology , public administration , criminal justice , politics , geography , algorithm , computer science , archaeology
In Victoria, responsibility for policing the public transport system was recently transferred to the Victoria Police, the official rationale for this development relied on the notion of a crime crisis and the need for a ‘crackdown’ on transport security. However, a more convincing explanation for this transfer can be found in Transport Department mismanagement, bureaucratic bungling, and alleged criminal activities of railway investigation officers. On a broader and more disturbing level, this case is consistent with an increasing capacity of the State to extend formal control into new social sites under the guise of controlling a ‘crime crisis’.