Municipal Corporate Security in International Context

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Corporate security is a form of regulation that involves centralized management of access control, physical security, personnel security, and information security inside an organization. For all the research on public policing, national security, and private contract security in sociology, criminology, and related disciplines, little scholarly attention has been paid to corporate security. Increasingly, corporate security is playing an important role in municipal and other government organizations as well as its traditional private, corporate domain. This book is the first social scientific contribution on corporate security to draw together the sociologies of security and policing, legal and social theory, and debates about municipal government. In this book, Walby and Lippert conceptualize various types of corporate security, including its public and private forms, and analyze a range of practices, such as asset protection and physical security provision. The authors explore a number of heretofore neglected themes, including use of legal knowledge, professionalization, legitimation work, and corporate security links with other security agencies and public police. The book provides empirical analyses of developments in several countries, but especially Canada and the US, where corporate security - including its entry into municipal government - is particularly advanced. Because corporate security cuts across security, policing, law, and government, as well as issues of professionalization, public space and democracy, the readership for Municipal Corporate Security in International Context spans disciplinary and national boundaries. It is essential reading for academics and students engaged in studying security, urban governance, politics and legal regulation. It will be of great interest to corporate security professionals and government policymakers too. Cover Half Title Title Page Copyright Page Table of Contents List of tables Acknowledgments Introduction 1. Theorizing corporate security (with Rhys Steckle) Introduction Private/contract security and corporate security research A new typology of corporate security Municipal Corporate Security (MCS): a first glance Strengths and limits of the typology Discussion Excursus: our research on corporate security Notes 2. Municipal Corporate Security and legal knowledge Introduction Law, security, and the urban Municipal corporate security and legal knowledges Trespass law and nuisance Licensing regulations for security professionals Litigation and legislative reasons for security Labor and employment law Privacy legislation Workplace violence and health and safety legislation Discussion Note 3. Expertise and professionalization of Municipal Corporate Security (with Alex Luscombe) Introduction Security, threats experts, and professionalization Analysis ASIS International: certification and professionalization A sense of expertise and professional status Networks and a sense of expertise Discussion Notes 4. Making sense of Municipal Corporate Security and surveillance Introduction Conceptualizing MCS surveillance MCS-deployed surveillance Discussion Note 5. Risk and corporate security in municipalities (with Alex Luscombe) Introduction Using sociologies of risk to understand corporate security Analysis Discussion Notes 6. Corporate security, public police, and private security (with Blair Wilkinson) Introduction Literature on corporate security, public police, and private security What Municipal Corporate Security staff say about public police What Municipal Corporate Security staff say about private corporate security What Municipal Corporate Security staff say about contract private security Discussion Note 7. Municipal Corporate Security in international perspective Introduction Municipal Corporate Security, security governance, and security consumption Municipal Corporate Security in Canada Municipal Corporate Security in the United States The difference Homeland Security makes: the Urban Area Security Initiative (UASI) Discussion Notes 8. A visit to the security industry’s grand bazaar Introduction The expo scene Governments as target consumers Exposing surveillance The security community The security spiral Discussion Notes 9. Accountability and critiques of corporate security Introduction Corporate security as value subtraction The corporatization critique Corporate security as ideological camouflage Corporate security creep Accountability and account ability Discussion Note Conclusion Bibliography Index