Informationen zum Autor Mahesh K. Nalla is Professor in the School of Criminal Justice at Michigan State University! USA.Tim Prenzler is Professor in the School of Law at the University of the Sunshine Coast! Australia. Zusammenfassung This volume provides a comprehensive overview of government-based licensing and minimum standards imposed on the security industry in relation to selection, training, and licensing in select countries from Africa, Asia, Europe, and North America. The chapters in this book were originally published in the International Journal of Comparative and Applied Criminal Justice. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface Introduction 1. The Growth of Privatized Policing: Some Cross-national Data and Comparisons 2. The Proliferation of Private Security Agencies in South Africa and its Concomitant Effect on Crime Prevention and Crime Reduction 3. The private security complex and its regulation in Africa: select examples from the continent 4. Reforming security industry training standards: an Australian case study 5. The Taming of the Japanese Private Security Industry 6. The evolution of security industry regulation in the European Union 7. Critiquing the regulation of private security in the United Kingdom: views from inside the sector 8. Common past - different paths: Exploring state regulation of private security industry in Eastern Europe and post-Soviet republics 9. Private security services regulations in the United States today

Autorentext
Mahesh K. Nalla is Professor in the School of Criminal Justice at Michigan State University, USA. Tim Prenzler is Professor in the School of Law at the University of the Sunshine Coast, Australia.

Zusammenfassung
This volume provides a comprehensive overview of government-based licensing and minimum standards imposed on the security industry in relation to selection, training, and licensing in select countries from Africa, Asia, Europe, and North America. The chapters in this book were originally published in the International Journal of Comparative and Applied Criminal Justice.

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Preface Introduction **1. The Growth of Privatized Policing: Some Cross-national Data and Comparisons **2. The Proliferation of Private Security Agencies in South Africa and its Concomitant Effect on Crime Prevention and Crime Reduction **3. The private security complex and its regulation in Africa: select examples from the continent **4. Reforming security industry training standards: an Australian case study **5. The Taming of the Japanese Private Security Industry **6. The evolution of security industry regulation in the European Union **7. Critiquing the regulation of private security in the United Kingdom: views from inside the sector **8. Common past - different paths: Exploring state regulation of private security industry in Eastern Europe and post-Soviet republics **9. Private security services regulations in the United States today