Journal article
Developments in the Australian Private Security Industry
Flinders Journal of Law Reform , Vol.10(3), pp.403-417
2008
Abstract
Police necessarily retain the major role in enforcing the law after crimes have been committed and offenders have been apprehended. However, given that public sector policing draws heavily on equipment and personnel services supplied by private providers, and that public police officers have many offenders handed over to them by the private sector, private security could be considered 'the primary protective resource' (Pastor 2003, p. 44). Despite this, there is very little informat on publicly available on the range, size and scope of security industries in Australia and there is no comprehensive study of the growth of these industries, the functions of their different components, how they relate to each other and the effectiveness of different regulatory strategies. This paper reports on current aspects of the security industry in Australia as part of a wider study of these issues more generally
Details
- Title
- Developments in the Australian Private Security Industry
- Authors
- Timothy Prenzler (Author) - Griffith UniversityRick Sarre (Author) - Griffith UniversityKaren Earle (Author) - University of South Australia
- Publication details
- Flinders Journal of Law Reform , Vol.10(3), pp.403-417
- Publisher
- Flinders University
- Date published
- 2008
- ISSN
- 1325-3387
- Copyright note
- Copyright © 2008 Flinders Journal of Law Reform. Reproduced here with permission of the copyright holder.
- Organisation Unit
- University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland; School of Law and Society; School of Law and Criminology - Legacy
- Language
- English
- Record Identifier
- 99450107902621
- Output Type
- Journal article
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