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This is the first in-depth conceptual and empirical analysis of the political issues, processes and themes associated with private security provision and its growth in the postwar era, examining why private security has become so prominent, what its relationship to the state is and how it can be controlled.

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'Of the hundreds of books I have reviewed in a decade or more, Adam White's book The Politics of Private Security is the most significant...It deserves to be quoted for many years. By putting private security on the map, White has put himself on the map.' - Mark Rowe, Editor, Professional Security The Politics of Private Security is a well-argued, finely detailed and fascinating historical account that will be of great interest to policing and socio-legal students and academics. The quality of future scholarly research on security politics, regardless of perspective, undoubtedly will have to be measured against it.' - British Journal of Criminology

Shotlisted for the British Society of Criminology Book Prize 2011 'Of the hundreds of books I have reviewed in a decade or more, Adam White's book The Politics of Private Security is the most significant...It deserves to be quoted for many years. By putting private security on the map, White has put himself on the map.' - Mark Rowe, Editor, Professional Security The Politics of Private Security is a well-argued, finely detailed and fascinating historical account that will be of great interest to policing and socio-legal students and academics. The quality of future scholarly research on security politics, regardless of perspective, undoubtedly will have to be measured against it.' - British Journal of Criminology

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ADAM WHITE is Lecturer in Public Policy at the University of York, UK. His research focuses on the governance of security, public policy and the changing nature of the state.

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