SOC326H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: High Tech
Document Summary
Private and plural policing: thought to be exclusive domain of the state. Provision of security or policing services other than by public servants in the normal course of their public duties. Most common form security (guards) and surveillance companies (investigators: complement, support or even replacing functions of the public police, every large businesses have private security and profiling individuals especially casino and airport security. Employed in ports, airports, retail shopping centers, commercial complexes, residential spaces, from gated communities to social housing. Expanding to forensic analyse, fraud, protection against high-tech corporate crimes: overwhelming focus on the protection of property, loss prevention, replicating some duties done by public police, agencies involved in maintaining order, investigating crimes and making arrests. Product, commodity, it is not a service to the public, it is a product, something that is bought and sold which means not everyone can benefit from it you are just subject to it.
