This book was originally published as a special issue of Global Crime.
Ian Loader is Professor of Criminology at the University of Oxford, UK and a Fellow of All Souls College. His books include Civilizing Security (2007, with Neil Walker) and Public Criminology? (2010, with Richard Sparks). He is currently working on a book with the working title A Better Politics of Crime.
Sarah Percy
is Professor of International Relations at the University of Western Australia. She is the author of several works considering the differences between public and private security and the distinction between war and crime, including Mercenaries: the history of a norm in international relations, and "The Business of Piracy in Somalia" (with Anja Shortland, Journal of Strategic Studies).