This book is the first social scientific contribution on corporate security to draw together the sociologies of security and policing, legal and social theory, and debates about municipal government.

Kevin Walby is Assistant Professor of Criminal Justice at the University of Winnipeg, Canada specializing in policing, security, and punishment. He is author of Touching Encounters: Sex, Work, and Male-for-Male Internet Escorting (2012, University of Chicago Press). He is co-editor of Emotions Matter: a Relational Approach to Emotions with Alan Hunt and D. Spencer (2012, University of Toronto Press) and Brokering Access: Power, Politics, and Freedom of Information Process in Canada with M. Larsen (2012, UBC Press). He is also co-editor with Randy K. Lippert of Policing Cities: Urban Securitization and Regulation (2013, Routledge) and Corporate Security in the 21st Century: Theory and Practice in International Perspective (2014, Palgrave).

Randy K. Lippert is Professor of Criminology at the University of Windsor, Canada specializing in security, policing and urban governance. He is co-editor of three other Routledge publications, Eyes Everywhere: the Global Growth of Camera Surveillance (2012), Sanctuary Practices in International Perspective (2013), and Policing Cities: Urban Securitization and Regulation (2013) as well as co-editor of Corporate Security in the 21st Century: Theory and Practice in International Perspective (Palgrave). He is also the author of Sanctuary, Sovereignty, Sacrifice: Canadian Sanctuary Incidents, Power and Law (2006, UBC Press) and numerous refereed articles.

Introduction 1. Theorizing Corporate Security (with Rhys Steckle) 2. Municipal Corporate Security and Legal Knowledge 3. Expertise and Professionalization of Municipal Corporate Security (with Alex Luscombe) 4. Making Sense of Municipal Corporate Security and Surveillance 5. Risk and Corporate Security in Municipalities (with Alex Luscombe) 6. Corporate Security, Public Police, and Private Security (with Blair Wilkinson) 7. Municipal Corporate Security in International Perspective 8. A Visit to the Security Industry's Grand Bazaar 9. Accountability and Critiques of Corporate Security 10. Conclusion.