BOB HOOGENBOOM is Professor of Policing and Security Studies, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam and Professor of Forensic Business Studies, Nyenrode Business Universiteit, The Netherlands and also Advisor to the Dutch Police Academy. As an historian the author developed an interest in policing. He has published on policing, inspectorates, regulators, intelligence and private security. He is a member of the Netherlands Intelligence Study Association and worked for universities, the private sector (forensic accounting) and teaches policing at the Dutch Police Academy.

Within Public Policing: Gradual Centralization Within Public Policing: Fictional and Factual Policing Blurring Boundaries and the Unbearable Lightness of the Criminological Discourse On Old Folks and Things that Pass Away: Criminology in 2018 The Governance of Policing and Security 'Grey Intelligence': The Private and Informal Future The Sopranos: Narrative Knowledge to Disrupt Academic Language Ironies, Paradoxes and The Seven Plagues of Policing and Security Technopoly Blinded by the Light: The Interweaving of (Organized) Crime, White Collar Crime, State Crime and Terrorism Unsafe and Unsound Practices Myths in Policing and Security Epilogue: Conversations with Clifford Shearing (ii)

Policing today involves many different state and non-state actors. This book traces the process of 'unbounding' policing, exploring the way that boundaries between public policing, regulators, inspectorates, intelligence services and private security are blurring, and the impact this will have on governance.