Bøger af Clifford Shearing

Bringing together a range of experts across criminology and environment and life sciences, this book explores the role of insurance in industry in contributing to, and responding to, the harms that climate change has brought and will bring either directly or indirectly.

Focuses on the ways in which the problem of security is thought about and promoted by a range of actors and agencies in the public, private, and non-governmental sectors. The first five chapters of this book explore what has happened to the governance of security.

Relentless fiscal pressures faced by the public police over the last few decades have meant that police organisations have had to find new ways to obtain and harness the resources needed to achieve their goals. Through entering into relationships of coercion, commercial exchange, and gift with a wide variety of external institutions and individuals operating in both public and private capacities, police organisations have risen to this challenge. Indeed, police organisations are increasingly operating within a business paradigm. But what are the benefits of these relationships and the nature of the risks that might accompany reliance upon them? This book examines these new modes of exchange between police and 'outsiders' and explores how far these relationships can be taken before certain fundamental values - equity in the distribution of policing, cost-effectiveness in the delivery of police services, and the legitimacy of the police institution itself - are placed in jeopardy.