NCJ Number
73160
Journal
Journal of Security Administration Volume: 3 Issue: 2 Dated: (October 1980) Pages: 25-52
Date Published
1980
Length
28 pages
Annotation
This essay argues that studies on security should be integrated into criminal justice education programs rather than treated as a separate but equal part of criminal justice education and crime control and prevention.
Abstract
The essay's basic premise is that social structural limitations prevent the criminal justice system from reducing property crime, and the system must therefore rely more heavily on security forces. In addition, the interactive relationship between the public and the 1970's, criminological and criminal justice studies progressed in a narrow fashion. At first, they searched for isolated causes or general theories of crime; next, they separated social, economic, and political conditions from system performance. Criminal justice education now recognizes the interactive nature of system elements, social setting elements, and combinations of them. Security and crime prevention studies can make many contributions to improved control of crimes committed in the private sector. Thus, these topics should be perceived as coequal partners with other elements of criminal justice. For coequality to become a reality, four major tasks must be completed. First, an accounting of the entry level jobs for people educated in security is needed. Second, the intellectual substance of the field must be developed. Third, the academically acceptable literature should be identified. Fourth, student and scholarly interest in research on security must be generated. The greatest impact on improving the relationship between public criminal justice and private security will come through the influence of college and university security studies which are coequal with criminal justice studies. Specific topics for research are suggested.