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

What has emerged in countries such as Britain, the United States, Australia, and Canada is a convergence of public and private policing. Of course, this is not a new observation. It has been argued for some time that private sector police increasingly have been taking over many roles that public police traditionally have been assigned (e.g., Shearing & Stenning, 1983; Johnston, 1992).