Relentless fiscal pressures faced by the public police over the last few decades have meant that police organisations have had to find new ways to obtain and harness the resources needed to achieve their goals. Through entering into relationships of coercion, commercial exchange, and gift with a wid[...]
The security governance of South Africa has faced immense challenges amid post-apartheid constitutional and political transformations. In many cases, policing and governmental organizations have failed to provide security and other services to the poorest inhabitants. Security Governance, Policing, [...]
Focuses on the ways in which the problem of security is thought about and promoted by a range of actors and agencies in the public, private, and non-governmental sectors. The first five chapters of this book explore what has happened to the governance of security.[...]
This book is concerned with the ways in which the problem of security is thought about and promoted by a range of actors and agencies in the public, private and nongovernmental sectors. The authors are concerned not simply with the influence of risk-based thinking in the area of security, but seek r[...]
Drawing upon a review of literature and research pertaining to innovations in policing, particularly in North America, the United Kingdom, Southern Africa, South America and Australia, this book explores conceptions, institutions and technologies for policing in the Anglo-American world since the ea[...]