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2005 Utah L. Rev. 573 (2005)
Conceptualizing the Private Police

handle is hein.journals/utahlr2005 and id is 583 raw text is: Conceptualizing the Private Police Elizabeth E. Joh* TABLE OF CONTENTS I. INTRODUCTION ........................................................................................... 574 II. A CRITIQUE OF CURRENT APPROACHES ................................................... 578 A. Is It New? .............................................................................................. 579 1. Compulsory Community Protection .................................................. 580 2. Private Prosecution Societies ........................................................... 582 3. Vigilantism ........................................................................................ 582 4. Thief-takers and Informants .............................................................. 583 5. Privately Funded Patrols .................................................................. 584 6. Conclusion ........................................................................................ 584 B. Is Private Policing Like Other Forms of Privatization? ....................... 585 C. Does It Possess an Essential Function? ............................................... 587 1. Loss Instead of Crime ....................................................................... 588 2. Preventive M ethods ........................................................................... 588 3. Private Justice ................................................................................... 589 4. Private Property ............................................................................... 591 5. Conclusion ........................................................................................ 592 D. Does It Change Policing? ................................................................ 592 E. Should Criminal Procedure Law Expand? ........................................... 594 F. Joining Sociological and Legal Approaches ......................................... 596 III. AN ANALYTIC MAP: PRIVATE POLICE VARIATION AND TYPES .............. 597 A. Sources of Variation .............................................................................. 597 1 . G o a ls ................................................................................................. 5 9 7 2. Resources .......................................................................................... 599 3. Legal Powers .................................................................................... 602 4. Jurisdiction ....................................................................................... 607 5. Organizational Location ................................................................... 608 B. Types of Private Policing ...................................................................... 609 1. Protective Policing ........................................................................... 611 2. Intelligence Policing ......................................................................... 611 3. Publicly Contracted Policing ............................................................ 613 4. Corporate Policing ........................................................................... 615 Acting Professor of Law, University of California, Davis (eejoh@ucdavis.edu), J.D., Ph.D. (Law and Society), New York University; B.A., Yale University. Thanks to Paul Chevigny, David Garland, Charles Reichmann, and Jerome Skolnick for their comments and suggestions; to the staff of the U.C. Davis Law Library, especially Erin Murphy, and Rachael Phillips for research assistance; to the Open Society Institute's Soros Justice Fellowships for early support; and to Dean Rex Perschbacher, Associate Dean Kevin Johnson, and the U.C. Davis Law School for financial assistance and institutional support. 573

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