The operation of private governance: exploratory research into private investigations

Roux, Jean-Pierre

The operation of private governance: exploratory research into private investigations

Master Thesis

2012

Publisher

University of Cape Town

Department

Institute of Criminology

Faculty

Faculty of Law

Abstract

Security governance is a salient topic within South Africa, both in public media, discourse and academic literature. Currently, South African government holds a domineering mentality towards security and wishes to monopolize it. Nonetheless, there is a growing call for private security, both by citizens and the business sector in South Africa. Furthermore, private security is a polemic issue with debates around its effects on public good as well as its role within society. This dissertation underlines and addresses these issues. In order to accomplish this, an ethnographic field study was conducted to uncover the situation and the forms and issues that revolve around private security on a ground level, breaking away from the academic cacophony that has saturated the field.

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Keywords

Criminal Justice

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