Introduction

Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents v
3. Foreword vii
4. Acknowledgments xi
5. Introduction 3
6. Private Provision and Purchase of Security
7. Police, Private Security, and Institutional Isomorphism 27
8. Private Policing of Images in Canada 48
9. Postsecondary Security in the Canadian Context 74
10. Private Actors in City Spaces and Surveillance
11. Policing Canadian Smart Cities 99
12. Platforms and Privatizing Lines 126
13. Private Influences and Privatization in Courts, Prisons, and Jails
14. Private Risk Assessment Instruments and Artificial Intelligence in Canada’s Criminal Justice System 153
15. The Implications of Food Privatization in Jails 176
16. Shape Shifting 198
17. Private Actors in National Security and Border Control
18. Evidence of High Policing Pluralization in Canada 221
19. The Creeping Privatization of Immigration Detention in Canada 247
20. Postscript 290
21. Contributors 295
22. Index 300