Democracy, Society and the Governance of Security

Cover......Page 1
Half-title......Page 3
Title......Page 5
Copyright......Page 6
Contents......Page 7
Contributors......Page 9
Foreword......Page 11
Acknowledgements......Page 13
Introduction
Understanding the governance of security......Page 15
Introduction......Page 25
The state-centred view......Page 30
The regulatory state......Page 37
Beyond a state-centred paradigm......Page 40
What can be done?......Page 42
Conclusion......Page 44
Introduction: The nodal model of governance......Page 47
Transnational contract security: market structure
and corporate activities......Page 49
Transnational contract security: the private military
services industry......Page 54
Companies and contracts......Page 55
Concerns......Page 58
The nodal model revisited......Page 60
Introduction......Page 66
Organizational theory......Page 67
Organized response to uncertainty......Page 69
Anglo-American policing......Page 72
The unknown enemy and iconic demonization......Page 74
Terrorism......Page 75
Responses to terrorism at the local level......Page 77
Social control on the ground......Page 79
Similarities......Page 80
Differences......Page 84
Some inferences......Page 93
Conclusion......Page 96
Introduction......Page 100
The set and the cast: contextualizing
changes in Australian policing......Page 103
Political actors......Page 105
Unions: an ambiguous relationship......Page 106
The media as catalyst......Page 107
Community: master or servant?......Page 108
Public security entrepreneurs and the
metaphor of capital......Page 110
Economic capital......Page 111
Political capital......Page 112
Cultural capital......Page 113
Social capital......Page 115
Symbolic capital......Page 116
Governing security beyond corporatist interests......Page 118
Conclusion......Page 123
5 Policing and security as ‘club goods’: the
new enclosures?......Page 125
The marketization of policing......Page 126
Conceptualizing public and private goods and interests......Page 129
An economic theory of public goods......Page 132
An economic theory of club goods......Page 134
Gated communities......Page 139
Exclusion from quasi-public spaces......Page 140
Exclusion from public spaces......Page 143
Parochial policing as a club good......Page 145
Reassurance policing......Page 148
Conclusions......Page 150
6 The state, the people and democratic
policing: the case of South Africa......Page 153
Transforming the state police in South Africa......Page 155
Reflecting on the contradictory outcomes of the
police democratization......Page 158
The state and democratic policing......Page 164
The state’s international obligations and the domestic
application of the rule of law......Page 166
The need to address all categories of crime......Page 167
A counter-balance to populism......Page 168
A partner in and guarantor against failure,
in alternative justice systems......Page 170
Greater legitimacy......Page 171
Accelerating and intensifying police reform......Page 173
Conclusion......Page 177
7 Necessary virtues: the legitimate place of
the state in the production of security......Page 179
Forms of state-scepticism in policing and security studies......Page 181
The state as meddler......Page 182
The state as partisan......Page 186
The state as idiot......Page 189
The state as cultural monolith......Page 194
Security as a ‘thick’ public good......Page 197
The necessary virtue of the state......Page 207
Introduction......Page 210
Security’s influence on health......Page 211
Putting fewer people in jail......Page 215
Reducing the harm and enhancing the benefits
of incarceration to health......Page 216
Integrating and harmonizing police and health work......Page 217
Beyond the state: health and the governance of security......Page 219
Reconciling microgovernance and state security:
towards methods of democratic transformation......Page 226
Conclusion......Page 230
Introduction......Page 231
Doing explanatory work......Page 233
Doing normative work......Page 240
Explanatory mapping......Page 244
Instrumental and normative assessment of maps......Page 249
Designing and diffusing an innovation......Page 251
Conclusion......Page 253
Conclusion
The future of democracy......Page 255
References......Page 263
Index......Page 299