This Handbook discusses the use of public-private partnerships in law enforcement and security. Written by international experts across multiple disciplines, chapters include case studies and cross-sectional industry-wide studies of private security performance in comparison with public police and collaborated experiences of the two sectors. The Handbook uses existing experiences and public economics to suggest how to improve security and social welfare through greater competition and cooperation between public and private security. This volume provides an integrated framework to assist policymakers in both public and private agencies. This Handbook will be an important reference for scholars in public economics, public administration, criminology, and criminal justice, as well as professionals and policymakers in the public and private sectors.

1. An Overview of Private Security and Policing in the United States.- 2. Allocating Police and Security: Comparing Public and Private Processes and Consequences .- 3. Public Space Crime Prevention Partnerships: Reviewing the Evidence.- 4. Australian Public and Private Crime Prevention Partnerships in Cyberspace.- 5. Private Security Confounds Estimates of Public Police and Crime.- 6. Public-Private Security Partnerships. Can they meet the Growing Challenges of Law Enforcement?- 7. The COVID-19 Pandemic and its impact on Public-Private Partnership in Policing: Experiences from within the Belgian and Dutch Security Industry.- 8. Incorporating Non-State Security Actors into Public Security: Mexico's Failed Experiment.- 9. The Substitutability and Complementarity of Private Security with Public Police: The Case of Violence Against Women and Girls in the Rail Network of the United Kingdom.- 10. Working with Private Policing to Enhance Public Policing: The Case of the United Kingdom.- 11. Private Law Enforcement in New York City.- 12. Private Security and Deterrence.- 13. How to Fight Crime by Improving Police Services: Evidence from the French Quarter Task Force.- 14. Public Security Enhances the Effectiveness of Private Security in Reducing Maritime Piracy Harm.- 15. What We've Learned: Lessons from the World's Leading Security Companies on Partnerships and Privatization.- 16. Improving Public Safety through Law Enforcement and Private Security.- 17. The Importance of Public-Private Partnerships.- 18. New Realities and New Solutions in Public and Private Policing