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Matthew S. Johnston - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • “Telling Masculine Tales”: Tracing My Embodied Experience as a Psychiatric Ward Security Guard through Ethnographic Narrative Writing
    Sociology Mind, 2014
    Co-Authors: Matthew S. Johnston
    Abstract:

    This article unfolds the culture of hyper-masculinity I witnessed and ultimately rejected during my sixteen-month career working as a Private Security Officer in an Ottawa hospital. I draw on two ethnographic narratives to “distribute”, in Rancierian terms, the embodied and emotional experiences that accompanied my struggles to achieve hegemonic masculine status, and resist military-like hierarchies inside an institutional setting. Such a creative methodological exercise allows researchers to freely explore their delicate, complex and messy feelings that may otherwise be ethically suppressed or co-opted through less corporeal representations of academic writing. Moreover, by revealing the sensitive and coercive interactions that steered my gendered relationships with psychiatric patients, ward nurses and other Security agents, I demonstrate how embodied research can transform our uncritical heteronormative positions on masculinity and violence, as well as contest the unequal, gendered and medicalized judgments that are imposed on incarcerated mental health patients.

  • “Telling Masculine Tales”: Tracing My Embodied Experience as a Psychiatric Ward Security Guard through Ethnographic Narrative Writing
    2014
    Co-Authors: Matthew S. Johnston
    Abstract:

    This article unfolds the culture of hyper-masculinity I witnessed and ultimately rejected during my sixteen-month career working as a Private Security Officer in an Ottawa hospital. I draw on two ethnographic narratives to “distribute”, in Rancièrian terms, the embodied and emotional experi-ences that accompanied my struggles to achieve hegemonic masculine status, and resist mili-tary-like hierarchies inside an institutional setting. Such a creative methodological exercise allows researchers to freely explore their delicate, complex and messy feelings that may otherwise be ethically suppressed or co-opted through less corporeal representations of academic writing. Moreover, by revealing the sensitive and coercive interactions that steered my gendered rela-tionships with psychiatric patients, ward nurses and other Security agents, I demonstrate how embodied research can transform our uncritical heteronormative positions on masculinity and violence, as well as contest the unequal, gendered and medicalized judgments that are imposed on incarcerated mental health patients

Hetherington, Christophe Joh - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • Private Security as an essential component of homeland Security
    Monterey California. Naval Postgraduate School, 2004
    Co-Authors: Hetherington, Christophe Joh
    Abstract:

    CHDS State/LocalApproved for public release, distribution is unlimitedThis thesis argues that first preventers are not limited to law enforcement and/or intelligence personnel. Private Security Officers are our true first preventers because they control access to the myriad of facilities we enter and exit every day. They are the individuals with their boots on the ground in our efforts to recognize abnormal or unusual activity. Based on the observation by President George W. Bush in the National Strategy for Homeland Security that 85% of the nation's critical infrastructure is owned by Private agencies and organizations, one conclusion is incontrovertible: No one is in a better position to be a first preventer than the Private Security Officer in America. In New York State, a professionally trained and licensed Security Officer's primary directive is defined as detecting, deterring and reporting on conditions which might harm life or property. It is incumbent upon government public Security officials, and Private Security executives themselves, to cultivate and exploit this undervalued segment of our efforts to combat terrorism on a national basis. In order to do so, and to assure the public of the competency of the Private Security workforce, it is imperative that Private Security Officers be mandated to meet minimum standards. Therefore, this thesis makes the argument that advocating nationwide, state controlled licensing and training of Private Security Officers is essential to the efforts of the Department of Homeland Security to employ 'First Responder' and 'First Preventer' strategies in the war on terrorism.Civilian, Chief of Staff, New York City Police Pension Fun

Christopher John Hetherington - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • Private Security as an Essential Component of Homeland Security
    2004
    Co-Authors: Christopher John Hetherington
    Abstract:

    Abstract : This thesis argues that first preventers are not limited to law enforcement and/or intelligence personnel. Private Security Officers are our true first preventers because they control access to the myriad of facilities we enter and exit every day. They are the individuals with their boots on the ground in our efforts to recognize abnormal or unusual activity. Based on the observation by President George W. Bush in the National Strategy for Homeland Security that 85% of the nation's critical infrastructure is owned by Private agencies and organizations, one conclusion is incontrovertible: No one is in a better position to be a first preventer than the Private Security Officer in America. In New York State, a professionally trained and licensed Security Officer s primary directive is defined as detecting, deterring and reporting on conditions which might harm life or property. It is incumbent upon government public Security officials, and Private Security executives themselves, to cultivate and exploit this undervalued segment of our efforts to combat terrorism on a national basis. In order to do so, and to assure the public of the competency of the Private Security workforce, it is imperative that Private Security Officers be mandated to meet minimum standards. Therefore, this thesis makes the argument that advocating nationwide, state controlled licensing and training of Private Security Officers is essential to the efforts of the Department of Homeland Security to employ 'First Responder' and 'First Preventer' strategies in the war on terrorism.

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Nalla Mahesh K - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.