ABSTRACT
One of the major findings of the research for this book is that the new environment is creating a force for change. The response to change calls for innovative practices, which can include the privatization, civilianization, and rationalization of the provision of police services. Within this environment is the contradiction that “[w]hile the role and capacity of public policing appears to be diminishing, policing scholars (Bayley, 1994; Bayley & Shearing, 1996; Murphy, 1998; Murray, 2000; Sheptycki, 1998) predict that global social and technological change will stimulate an ever-expanding requirement for policing and security in society” (Murphy, 2002, pp. 36–37).
