Converging Corporatization? Police Management, Police Unionism, and the Transfer of Business Principles

O’Malley, Pat; Hutchinson, Steven

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“…An exception to security corporatization’s neglect is work by O’Malley and Hutchinson (2007) that explores public police organizations by concentrating on police unions. A corporate consciousness is found to be enveloping public police organizations as police administrators mutate into corporate executives (O’Malley & Hutchinson, 2007). While these authors insightfully document the “transfer of business principles” to public police we suggest this is only a potential aspect of corporatization rather than its essence.…”

Section: Previous Research About Corporatization Of Securitymentioning

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Corporatizing security through champions, condos and credentials

Lippert

Walby

2018

Australian & New Zealand Journal of Criminology

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This paper argues that corporatization of security is distinct from related phenomena including commodification, privatization, and marketization. Corporatization refers to the spread of the corporate form and therefore to organization and governance, not ownership, and as corporatization expands in the security domain it raises troubling issues due to its secretive and undemocratic features. Corporatization’s conceptual purchase and these issues are shown through exploration of emergent security arrangements in three under-researched, disparate realms with growing global presence: public police sponsorship, private residential urban security, and public corporate security. These revealing realms of security corporatization are established and enhanced by specific techniques and organizational forms, including champions, condominiums, and credentials, respectively. The paper concludes with discussion of implications of corporatization of security for scholarly methods of inquiry and critique as well as for increasing accountability.

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Section: Previous Research About Corporatization Of Securitymentioning

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Corporatizing security through champions, condos and credentials

Lippert

Walby

2018

Australian & New Zealand Journal of Criminology

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“…Paradoxically, the corporatisation of police management in Canada reinvigorated trade union consciousness and organisation. Rather than managerial principles filtering down to the lower ranks, business values are resisted at the street level (De Lint 1999, O'Malley andHutchinson 2007). Apparently, the possibilities for transferring business standards to 'street cops' are limited.…”

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Plural policing, the public good, and the constitutional state: an international comparison of Austria and Canada – Ontario

Stokkom

Terpstra

2016

Policing and Society

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For the past two or three decades many jurisdictions have experienced a pluralisation of policing. In addition to the regular public police, in most countries new providers have become involved in policing public and semi-public places. This paper deals with the differences in the ways that plural policing and its consequences are defined and assessed in different countries. The paper focuses on two countries that differ considerably in the impact of neoliberalism, Austria and Canada-Ontario. In these countries different discourses are used to assess plural policing and its potential negative impact. In Canada the public good is the central concept in discussions of plural policing. This often refers to instrumental goals such as value for money and service delivery to consumers. In Austria plural policing is generally discussed in terms of the tasks and position of the state, the monopoly of violence, and by referring to constitutional and fundamental legal perspectives. This study shows that international comparative research on (plural) policing cannot be based on the tacit assumption that central concepts such as public good have universal relevance. On the contrary, these normative concepts are highly context dependent, an important conclusion for future international comparative research on policing and security.

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“…Indeed, police agencies in the United States, the United Kingdom, Australia, and several other countries are also preparing for mass retirement, an influx of newly promoted officers, and the hiring of a new generation of employees (Butterfield et al 2005;O'Malley and Hutchinson 2007). Research efforts to tackle these various issues are also not restricted to Canada.…”

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The Challenges of Moving into Middle Management: Responses from Police Officers

Hogan

Bennell

Taylor

2010

J Police Crim Psych

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The role of the middle manager is crucial to a police organization. Despite this, little research exists concerning the characteristics of effective police managers, or the role that the promotional process and/or training plays in identifying and developing effective managers. To examine these issues, 328 Canadian police officers were surveyed and interviews were conducted with an additional 50 police professionals. The results highlight: (1) the importance of management in achieving organizational goals, (2) key characteristics of effective managers and common mistakes managers make, and (3) concerns surrounding the promotional process and the lack of managerial training. The implications of these findings are discussed.

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Converging Corporatization? Police Management, Police Unionism, and the Transfer of Business Principles

Cited by 29 publications

References 28 publications

Corporatizing security through champions, condos and credentials

Corporatizing security through champions, condos and credentials

Plural policing, the public good, and the constitutional state: an international comparison of Austria and Canada – Ontario

The Challenges of Moving into Middle Management: Responses from Police Officers

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