This literature review is on the topic of Private Investigator: Controversies & Opportunities of Plural Policing. This review will focus on several critical themes comparing and contrasting different author’s views on the issue, Identify key authors, findings & highlighting gaps in research.
The most influential idea is the concept of a Nodal Government of security developed by Shearing (Wood & Shearing 2007, Johnston & Shearing 2003). This theory presented as an alternative approach to the one-minded, dominant state-centred model of policing and what they call government security. This presented an analysis of policing and security as a complex of nodes within a number of relationships with various forms of dependencies. In other words different …show more content…
This is important because in the eyes of the public they would rather have a professional body like the police who, are properly trained, experience, well equipped and available to the public at all times compared to security who are not. He furthered argued that the police always have the best interests of the public compared to private who are only interested in businesses opportunities and profits. Although, this theory does not fully explain any possible corruption that is evident in real life. One criticism on Crawford 2003 argument would be that, although he is right, he shows no evidence regarding corruption within the police, this could potentially be a biased view. It is known that although the police were built on the foundations of the public best interest, it is known that some do not and may abuse …show more content…
Bonnett, Maillard & Roche 2015 demonstrated crime and property are important driving factors of the rise of private security. He hypothesized that anti-social behaviour comes from a lower-class background which does not require a heavy handed approach by the police. However his methodology is targeted towards on class and not several, the key problem with this explanation is that it may apply to one place but not another. A Qualitative research as well as secondary date would have been more accurate over different areas and class. Bonnett 2006 showed that the heavy-handed approach by the police during a riot help shape the way for private security, they learnt that this approach perceived by management as a threat to business, as customers would associate this with disorder, consequently leading private security acting as mediators. This contradicts Terpstra Schattendorf incident however you can argue again that privates inability lead to death where as police did not. This is certainly true in the case of Terpstra & Stockholm 2015 comparative study showed it was unintended consequences which lead to pluralisation which is evident in Bonnett et
The most influential idea is the concept of a Nodal Government of security developed by Shearing (Wood & Shearing 2007, Johnston & Shearing 2003). This theory presented as an alternative approach to the one-minded, dominant state-centred model of policing and what they call government security. This presented an analysis of policing and security as a complex of nodes within a number of relationships with various forms of dependencies. In other words different …show more content…
This is important because in the eyes of the public they would rather have a professional body like the police who, are properly trained, experience, well equipped and available to the public at all times compared to security who are not. He furthered argued that the police always have the best interests of the public compared to private who are only interested in businesses opportunities and profits. Although, this theory does not fully explain any possible corruption that is evident in real life. One criticism on Crawford 2003 argument would be that, although he is right, he shows no evidence regarding corruption within the police, this could potentially be a biased view. It is known that although the police were built on the foundations of the public best interest, it is known that some do not and may abuse …show more content…
Bonnett, Maillard & Roche 2015 demonstrated crime and property are important driving factors of the rise of private security. He hypothesized that anti-social behaviour comes from a lower-class background which does not require a heavy handed approach by the police. However his methodology is targeted towards on class and not several, the key problem with this explanation is that it may apply to one place but not another. A Qualitative research as well as secondary date would have been more accurate over different areas and class. Bonnett 2006 showed that the heavy-handed approach by the police during a riot help shape the way for private security, they learnt that this approach perceived by management as a threat to business, as customers would associate this with disorder, consequently leading private security acting as mediators. This contradicts Terpstra Schattendorf incident however you can argue again that privates inability lead to death where as police did not. This is certainly true in the case of Terpstra & Stockholm 2015 comparative study showed it was unintended consequences which lead to pluralisation which is evident in Bonnett et