Democracy, Society and the Governance of Security
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: June 19, 2006
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 304
ISBN-13: 9780521850926
Subjects: Crime & criminology; Violence in society; Sociology; Political Ideologies - Democracy; Social Science; Politics / Current Events; Political Freedom & Security - General; Social Science / Criminology; Criminology; Crime prevention; Government policy; Internal security; National security
First sentence: There has been, among many scholars and practitioners, a steadfast refusal to acknowledge the existence of what Macaulay, many years ago, recognized as 'private governments' (that is, non-state entities that operate not simply as providers of governance on behalf of state agencies but as auspices of governance in their own right) (Macaulay 1986).