"In Selling Security, Wakefield provides a detailed account of trends in urban planning, public policy and the commercial world that have promoted the expansion of private security. She considers changes in retail and leisure patterns leading to the emergence of large, multi-purpose developments, the implementation of town centre planning strategies to create more attractive and secure high street retail and leisure facilities, and the extension of CCTV and security patrols as tools for managing social settings." "The book also takes account of the challenges posed by these developments to conventional law enforcement agencies, most notably the erosion of the state's virtual monopoly on policing and the need for governments to develop new strategies that harness the efforts of alternative policing agencies. At the same time, Selling Security makes an important contribution to theoretical debates about the role of private security in the late modern era."--BOOK JACKET.