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The Pluralization of High Policing: Convergence and Divergence at the Public-Private Interface

O'Reilly, C.

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C. O'Reilly



Abstract

High policing has long been associated with the preservation and augmentation of state interests by the intelligence community. However, this paradigm can neither be examined, nor theorized, within an exclusively ‘public’ framework; a host of ‘private’ actors must now be acknowledged on this conceptual terrain. Moving beyond well-acknowledged patterns of outsourcing intelligence, this paper brings sharper research attention to transnational security consultancies as well as the more shadowy realms of boutique intelligence firms, private detectives and freelance covert operatives. By examining these new private categories of high policing, this paper considers the complex patterns of convergence and divergence that characterize the public–private interface. Specific attention is devoted to resources of symbolic power and how these impact the capacity for coercive action.

Citation

O'Reilly, C. (2015). The Pluralization of High Policing: Convergence and Divergence at the Public-Private Interface. The British Journal of Criminology: An International Review of Crime and Society, 55(4), 688-710. https://doi.org/10.1093/bjc/azu114

Journal Article Type Article
Online Publication Date Jan 27, 2015
Publication Date Jul 1, 2015
Deposit Date Dec 11, 2014
Publicly Available Date Jan 27, 2017
Journal British Journal of Criminology
Print ISSN 0007-0955
Electronic ISSN 1464-3529
Publisher Oxford University Press
Peer Reviewed Peer Reviewed
Volume 55
Issue 4
Pages 688-710
DOI https://doi.org/10.1093/bjc/azu114
Keywords High policing, Private security, Pluralization, Symbolic power.

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This is a pre-copyedited, author-produced PDF of an article accepted for publication in British Journal of Criminology following peer review. The definitive publisher-authenticated version O'Reilly, C. (2015) 'The pluralisation of high policing : convergence and divergence at the public-private interface.', British journal of criminology, 55(4): 688-710, is available online at: https://doi.org/10.1093/bjc/azu114.





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