Résumé
"This study examines the ways in which the state governance of security has been reinvented. It takes as its institutional site the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) and more broadly, the Ontario Government. It examines particular strategic, institutional and managerial shifts in the OPP over the course of the last decade, and locates these shifts within a broader political and economic environment characterized by new governmental problems and imperatives. Of particular interest is the nature of the "new right" political agenda in this province and its effects on the organization of governance. In contrast to traditional sociological accounts of public policing, this study is concerned with shifts in managerial discourse, and the ways in which managers have responded to a range of broad economic and political imperatives through various forms of organizational change. ... The ultimate aim of this study is to contribute to this scholarship on governmentality and neo-liberalism by analyzing: (1) the time- and space-specific conditions which have led to the emergence of new mentalities; (2) the precise ways in which these mentalities have been appropriated and translated; and (3) the ultimate effects of these mentalities on the organization and distribution of policing across the public-private divide."--Abstract.