A History of Private Policing in the United States

Prof. Wilbur R. Miller (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

248 Seiten

2020
Bloomsbury Academic (Verlag)
978-1-350-16361-4 (ISBN)

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Private law enforcement and order maintenance have usually been seen as working against or outside of state authority. A History of Private Policing in the United States surveys private policing since the 1850s to the present, arguing that private agencies have often served as a major component of authority in America as an auxiliary of the state.

Wilbur R. Miller defines private policing broadly to include self-defense, stand your ground laws, and vigilantism, as well as private detectives, security guards and patrols from gated community security to the Guardian Angels. He also covers the role of detective agencies in controlling labor organizing through spies, guards and strikebreakers.

A History of Private Policing in the United States is an overview integrating various components of private policing to place its history in the context of the development of the American state.

Wilbur R. Miller is Professor of History at Stony Brook University, USA.

List of Illustrations
Preface
1. Private Policing in the United States: The Diffusion of State Power
2. Self-Defense and the "Armed Citizen"
3. Varieties of Vigilantism
4. Security Guards and Patrols
5. Private Detectives
6. Policing of Labor
7. Prisoners for Profit
8. What Should Be the Relationship between the State and Private Police in American Society?
Select Bibliography
Index

Erscheinungsdatum	11.11.2019
Reihe/Serie	History of Crime, Deviance and Punishment
Zusatzinfo	6 bw illus
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Gewicht	354 g
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
ISBN-10	1-350-16361-9 / 1350163619
ISBN-13	978-1-350-16361-4 / 9781350163614
Zustand	Neuware