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Examining the Roles of the Police and Private Security Officers in Urban Social Control
International Journal of Police Science and Management, 2011This cross-sectional research examined the deployment of police and security officers in the 300 most densely populated US counties. Controlling for indicators of population structure, race, income and the underclass, there is a clear and consistent relationship, albeit weak, between crime and the deployment of both the police and private security ...
Rick Ruddell, Matthew O Thomas
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How private security officers perceive themselves relative to police
Security Journal, 2009Efforts to analyse and describe the ever more salient phenomenon of private security have promoted the creation of certain neologisms, such as ‘parapolice’ and ‘quasipolice’, to capture the notion that this privatized, commodified variant of uniformed social control is not ‘police’ and must be contrasted with legitimate sources of governance.
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Overlapping Values, Mutual Prejudices: Empirical Research into the Ethos of Police Officers and Private Security Guards [PDF]
Administration and Society, 2015 What determines professional motivations and values of security operatives: sector or profession? Our paper aims to answer this question by reporting on a survey study among police officers (n=405) and private security guards (n=329) in the Netherlands ...
Zeger van der Wal
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Correlates of private security officers’ job satisfaction in South Korea
International Journal of Comparative and Applied Criminal Justice, 2021This exploratory research examines the determinants of private security officer’s job satisfaction.
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Private security officers’ willingness to cooperate with police: the role of procedural justice
Policing and Society, 2020Private security officers perform a variety of services that ensure citizens’ safety and security.
Seung Y. Paek +2 more
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Policing and Society, 2014
For the past few decades the numbers of private security officers have increased in many European countries, and the role of these officers in the public space has become more important. It is therefore increasingly relevant to gain a better view of the occupational culture of private security. This paper studies the occupational culture of the private
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For the past few decades the numbers of private security officers have increased in many European countries, and the role of these officers in the public space has become more important. It is therefore increasingly relevant to gain a better view of the occupational culture of private security. This paper studies the occupational culture of the private
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Policing and Society, 2013
The objective of this study is to establish how well the public distinguishes between different uniformed patrol officer patrolling shopping malls, and whether they have different effects on feelings of safety and worry about crime. It is based on interviews with a sample of 502 shoppers at five shopping malls in Southern England.
Richard Rowland, Timothy Coupe
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The objective of this study is to establish how well the public distinguishes between different uniformed patrol officer patrolling shopping malls, and whether they have different effects on feelings of safety and worry about crime. It is based on interviews with a sample of 502 shoppers at five shopping malls in Southern England.
Richard Rowland, Timothy Coupe
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2019
Private security contracts are two or multilateral legal transactions that both par-ties are under obligation. While the primary obligation of the private security company arising from the contract is to provide security by the terms of the cont-ract, the obligation of the other party of the contract is payment of wages.
ZORLU, Süheyla, ZORLU, Süleyman Emre
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Private security contracts are two or multilateral legal transactions that both par-ties are under obligation. While the primary obligation of the private security company arising from the contract is to provide security by the terms of the cont-ract, the obligation of the other party of the contract is payment of wages.
ZORLU, Süheyla, ZORLU, Süleyman Emre
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EFFECT OF PRIVATE SECURITY POLICE COOPERATION ON PRIVATE SECURITY OFFICERS ' INTENTION TO QUIT
2019Bu araştırmanın temel amacı özel güvenlik görevlilerinin polisişbirliği algılarının işten ayrılma niyetleri üzerine etkisini test etmektir.Araştırmanın evrenini Antalya ili Alanya ilçesinde çalışan özel güvenlikgörevlileri oluşturmaktadır. Araştırmada tesadüfi örneklem kullanılmıştır.Uygulanan anket neticesinde analize uygun 296 veri araştırmaya dahil ...
HARPUTLU, Mustafa, TEKİNER, Mehmet Ali
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Senior police officers' perspectives on private security: sceptics, pragmatists and embracers
Policing and Society, 2013The police have traditionally been sceptical about working with some groups, and the private security sector is foremost amongst them. Arguments that there are too many negatives associated with a service that is accountable to only those who can pay can be balanced by its potential to offer more cost-effective ways of policing, not least in an austere
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