Open AccessSecurity Officers and Policing – Powers, Culture and Control in the Governance of Private Space by Mark Button
Author(s) -
Alan Barron
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
entertainment and sports law journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 1748-944X
DOI - 10.16997/eslj.77
Subject(s) - private space , private security , corporate governance , space (punctuation) , public security , control (management) , state (computer science) , public administration , business , political science , law , management , finance , economics , computer science , algorithm , operating system
The past thirty years or so have seen a dramatic shift in the culture of policing. From a once exclusively publicly funded operation we now see a range of private actors performing policing functions. This gone hand-in-hand with the economic development of private and quasi-public space with the result that private ‘policing’ is now greater in strength than traditional state sponsored policing.