ABSTRACT
Governments are increasingly sharing risks with the private and voluntary sectors. The private-voluntary-public partnership to which politicians increasingly refer is their way of ensuring that criticism of operations or initiatives is shared across a spectrum of opinion. It is a typical response of a risk society. Globalisation has ensured that the risk society, broadly speaking, is a society organised in a significant way around the concept of risk. Risk increasingly determines the discourse of security. Every society that has faced dangers has evolved security strategies to deal with them. In a globalised age we see the emergence of a new concept of policing, which takes its cue from the domestic model, where people have moved from 'community policing' to 'policing communities of risk'. The interest in 'zero-tolerance' policing, 'moving on' criminals or potential criminals, and the constant surveillance of those potential criminals, individuals or groups, in order to make policing more effective.
