caa a22 4500 475765249 CHVBK 20180406123603.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170329e20000901xx s 000 0 eng 10.1023/A:1008729129953 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1023/A:1008729129953 Stenning Philip Centre of Criminology, University of Toronto, Room 8001, Robarts Library, 130 St. George Street, M5S 3H1, Toronto, Ontario, Canada aut Powers and Accountability of Private Police [Elektronische Daten] [Philip Stenning] Substantial growth in private policing has been documented in countries throughout the world, and the division of responsibilities for policing between public and private authorities has become increasingly blurred and contested during the last three decades. Because private policing is so frequently assessed on the basis of criteria established with respect to the public police, substantial myths have developed about the powers and accountability of private police; specifically, it is commonly asserted that private police have no significant power(s), and are essentially not accountable, in comparison with the public police. The author argues that such assertions misrepresent the very substantial coercive power of private police as well as the variety of mechanisms through which they may be held accountable, and also commonly exaggerate the effective accountability of the public police. The author concludes that a greater appreciation of the actual power and accountability of private police will provide an improved basis for the development of sound public policy with respect to both private and public policing, and with respect to appropriate relationships between private and public policing organisations. Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2000 accountability nationallicence police powers nationallicence private policing nationallicence public/private police relationships nationallicence European Journal on Criminal Policy and Research Kluwer Academic Publishers 8/3(2000-09-01), 325-352 0928-1371 8:3<325 2000 8 10610 https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1008729129953 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1008729129953 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Stenning Philip Centre of Criminology, University of Toronto, Room 8001, Robarts Library, 130 St. George Street, M5S 3H1, Toronto, Ontario, Canada aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- European Journal on Criminal Policy and Research Kluwer Academic Publishers 8/3(2000-09-01), 325-352 0928-1371 8:3<325 2000 8 10610 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer