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Private Security and Domestic Violence: The Risks and Benefits of Private Security Companies Working With Victims of Domestic Violence book cover

1st Edition

Private Security and Domestic Violence The Risks and Benefits of Private Security Companies Working With Victims of Domestic Violence

By Diarmaid Harkin Copyright 2020
164 Pages
by Routledge

164 Pages
by Routledge

164 Pages
by Routledge
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Private companies are increasingly involved with the security of domestic violence victims. This has manifested in a number of ways, including private security companies working in partnership with domestic violence services, the proliferation of security-technology companies that seek a market within the domestic violence sector, and governments contracting private companies to provide security... Read more

Introduction;  1. Why now? The recent emergence of private security companies into the field of domestic violence;  2. Case study examples of security companies working with victims of domestic violence in Australia;  3. The damaging impacts of unethical and incompetent private security companies;  4. The risks and benefits of the ‘technical solutions’ offered by private security companies;  5. The benefits for victims and domestic violence services of using private security companies;  6. How should private security companies be regulated for the optimal benefit of victims of domestic violence?;  Conclusion: the future of private security company involvement with victims of domestic violence

Biography

Diarmaid Harkin is an Alfred Deakin Postdoctoral Research Fellow and Senior Lecturer in Criminology at Deakin University. His current active research interests include the use of private security companies in the context of domestic violence, the consumer spyware industry, and the challenges of cyber-policing.

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