The Governance of Policing and Security

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-viii

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2. Introduction

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   Pages 1-10

3. Within Public Policing: Gradual Centralisation

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   Pages 11-16

4. Within Public Policing: Fictional and Factual Policing

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   Pages 17-38

5. Blurring Boundaries and the Unbearable Lightness of Criminological Discourse

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   Pages 39-56

6. On Old Folks and Things That Pass Away: Criminology in 2018

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   Pages 57-72

7. The Governance of Policing and Security

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   Pages 73-81

8. ‘Grey Intelligence’: The Private and Informal Future

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   Pages 82-93

9. The Sopranos: Narrative Knowledge to Disrupt Academic Language

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   Pages 94-113

10. Ironies, Paradoxes and the Seven Plagues of Policing and Security

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    Pages 114-129

11. Technopoly

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    Pages 130-148

12. Blinded by the Light: The Interweaving of (Organised) Crime, White Collar Crime, State Crime and Terrorism

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    Pages 149-168

13. Unsafe and Unsound Practices

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    Pages 169-188

14. Myths in Policing and Security

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    Pages 189-199

15. Epilogue: Conversations with Clifford Shearing (II)

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    Pages 200-215

16. Back Matter

    Pages 216-236

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Policing today involves many different state and non-state actors. This book traces the process of 'unbounding' policing, exploring the way that boundaries between public policing, regulators, inspectorates, intelligence services and private security are blurring, and the impact this will have on governance.

• crime
• criminology
• Governance
• service
• terrorism

• VU University Amsterdam, The Netherlands

  Bob Hoogenboom

• Nyenrode Business University, The Netherlands

  Bob Hoogenboom

BOB HOOGENBOOM is Professor of Policing and Security Studies, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam and Professor of Forensic Business Studies, Nyenrode Business Universiteit, The Netherlands and also Advisor to the Dutch Police Academy. As an historian the author developed an interest in policing. He has published on policing, inspectorates, regulators, intelligence and private security. He is a member of the Netherlands Intelligence Study Association and worked for universities, the private sector (forensic accounting) and teaches policing at the Dutch Police Academy.

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