The Politics of Private Security: Regulation, Reform and Re-Legitimation

By Adam White

Book Overview

This is the first in-depth conceptual and empirical analysis of the political issues, processes and themes associated with private security provision and its growth in the postwar era, examining why private security has become so prominent, what its relationship to the state is and how it can be controlled.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0230242944
• ISBN13: 9780230242944
• Release Date: October 2010
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 202 Pages
• Weight: 0.83 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.4" x 8.5"