ABSTRACT

Campus police in the United States are often discussed in terms of their domestic impact on college grounds and the surrounding neighbourhoods, but they have a lesser-known global impact as well. This article reveals how campus forces have attempted to shed their reputation as 'rent-a-cops' by establishing themselves as the leading global experts on campus security and participating in a wide range of projects designed to protect state interests. In doing so, campus police have positioned themselves as their own specialised branch of policing (rather than as merely subsidiary to municipal policing) and contributed to the construction of a global carceral apparatus. Campus departments' quest for legitimacy has manifested in the exchange of policing tactics between city and campus forces around the world through training sessions, networking events, and other collaborative programmes. As historians continue to uncover the global effects of policing in the United States, it is important to include the contributions of often overlooked private and quasi-public campus police departments. This article argues that campus forces used their unique status to take part in police assistance efforts abroad while also reproducing them in their own profession to construct the global campus security network.

摘要

在美国，通常会就校园警察对大学校园和周围社区的家庭影响进行讨论，但它们对全球的影响也鲜为人知。本文揭示了校园部队如何通过建立自己为校园安全领域的全球领先专家并参加旨在保护国家利益的广泛项目而试图摆脱“出租警察”的声誉。通过这样做，校园警察将自己定位为自己的警务专业部门（而不是仅仅作为市政警务的附属机构），并为全球范围内的监狱机构的建设做出了贡献。校园部门对合法性的追求体现在全球城市和校园部队之间通过培训课程交流警务策略，社交活动和其他协作计划。随着历史学家继续发现美国维持治安的全球影响，重要的是要包括经常被忽视的私人和准公共校园警察部门的贡献。本文认为，校园部队利用其独特的身份参加国外的警察援助工作，同时也将其复制为自己的职业，以构建全球校园安全网络。