%0 Journal Article
%T A brief review of Professor Jean-Paul Brodeur¡¯s discussion of private security in Chapter 8 of his book, The Policing Web
%A Philip Stenning
%J Champ P¨¦nal
%D 2012
%I Champ p¨¦nal
%R 10.4000/champpenal.8318
%X Dans cette contribution, je me penche sur la mani¨¨re dont Jean-Paul Brodeur aborde le sujet de la s¨¦curit¨¦ priv¨¦e dans le huiti¨¨me chapitre de son livre, The Policing Web. J¡¯estime que ce livre repr¨¦sente la premi¨¨re tentative   s¨¦rieuse   par un chercheur sp¨¦cialis¨¦ dans les questions polici¨¨res de d¨¦velopper une   th¨¦orie du policing   qui int¨¨gre le ph¨¦nom¨¨ne moderne de la s¨¦curit¨¦ priv¨¦e et   plurielle  . Cet objectif n¡¯est toutefois pas compl¨¨tement atteint dans le livre, pour des raisons que Jean-Paul Brodeur expose lui-m¨ºme ¨¤ ses lecteurs. J¡¯examine son argumentaire sur les difficult¨¦s d¡¯obtenir une d¨¦finition consensuelle de la   s¨¦curit¨¦ priv¨¦e  , l¡¯importance qu¡¯il accordait ¨¤ l¡¯¨¦tude de l¡¯¨¦volution des technologies de s¨¦curit¨¦ et leurs implications pour sa th¨¦orie du policing, ainsi que sur sa qualification de la s¨¦curit¨¦ priv¨¦e comme une modalit¨¦ de la haute police. Selon moi, ses r¨¦flexions repr¨¦sentent une contribution significative ¨¤ la litt¨¦rature et nous incitent ¨¤ combler le d¨¦ficit de connaissances au sujet de la s¨¦curit¨¦ priv¨¦e au XXIe si¨¨cle. In this contribution I review Jean-Paul Brodeur¡¯s treatment of the subject of private policing in Chapter 8 of his last book, The Policing Web. I argue that his book represents the first serious attempt by a ¡®mainstream¡¯ policing scholar to develop a ¡®theory of policing¡¯ that fully integrates the modern phenomena of private and ¡®plural¡¯ policing, a goal which is nevertheless not fully achieved in the book, for reasons that Brodeur himself explained. I review his discussion of the difficulties of obtaining consensus on the definition of ¡®private policing¡¯; his emphasis on the importance of evolving security technology, and the implications of this for his ¡®theory of policing¡¯; and his characterization of private policing as a form of ¡®high policing¡¯. I argue that his treatment of these issues constitutes a significant contribution to the literature, and challenges us to find ways of filling the remaining gaps in our knowledge and understanding of ¡®private policing¡¯ in the 21st Century.
%K technology
%K Jean-Paul Brodeur
%K theory of policing
%K high policing
%K private policing
%K technologie
%K Jean-Paul Brodeur
%K th¨¦orie de la police
%K haute police
%K police priv¨¦e
%U http://champpenal.revues.org/8318