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The Development of the Private Sector of the Criminal Justice System

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 July 2024

Thomas M. Scott  and
Marlys McPherson
Thomas M. Scott
Affiliation:
University of Minnesota
Marlys McPherson
Affiliation:
University of Minnesota
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One of the more interesting questions that political scientists are likely to overlook in their analyses of public policy, the delivery of services, etc., is the continually changing mix of public and private provision of such policies and services. Present concern with the criminal justice system, in general, and the police in particular, is no exception. Political scientists are interested in questions of police organization, public accountability of police activity, implications of greater involvement in local police activity by state and federal agencies, professionalization of local police officers, etc. But we have tended to concentrate on the political-governmental provision of police services and to ignore both the traditional and the contemporary role of private police as a very important part of the total panoply of police activities in American society.

Type
Research Article
Information
Law & Society Review , Volume 6 , Issue 2: Special Issue on the Police , November 1971 , pp. 267 - 288
Copyright
Copyright © 1971 by the Law and Society Association.

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