The Public Surveillance Functions of Private Security
The Public Surveillance Functions of Private Security
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私人保安的公共监视功能
DOI：
10.24908/ss.v2i4.3362
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发表时间：
2002
影响因子：
2
通讯作者：
A. Wakefield
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作者：
A. Wakefield
本文关注的可以说是社会上最普遍的观察者——私人保安人员。在战后大规模私有财产和私人安全迅速扩张的背景下，本文的论点是，这两个行业之间的相互依赖是理解监控作为私有化城市空间治理形式的重要性的关键。通过对文化中心、购物中心和零售休闲中心这三种环境中的私人安全进行实证研究，作者认为，在这些场所中，监控实践不仅仅是一种维持治安和预防犯罪的方法，而且是这三个中心更广泛的管理战略的核心。这些监视做法也成为与警方合作的基础。在结论中，就监视的警务方面提出了一些关切，涉及商业和公共警务目标以及在此过程中受到侵蚀的人权和公民自由。
This paper is concerned with arguably the most pervasive body of watchers in society, private security personnel. Set in the context of the rapid post-war expansion of both mass private property and private security, the contention of the paper is that the inter-dependency between these two industries is key to understanding the significance of surveillance as a form of governance in privatised urban spaces. Drawing on an empirical study of private security in three settings: a cultural centre, a shopping centre and a retail and leisure complex, it is argued that surveillance practices represented much more than an approach to policing and crime prevention in these venues, and were central to broader management strategies for the three centres. These surveillance practices also became the basis for collaborative working with the police. In the conclusion, a number of concerns are raised with respect to the policing aspects of surveillance, in relation to both commercial and public policing objectives and the human rights and civil liberties being eroded along the way.