What does Private Security do in Santa Fe? Approaches to one of the ways of managing contemporary security

Abstract

This article is part of a broader work of the master's thesis «Private Security and its insertion in the security government of the city of Santa Fe» and its general objective is to shed some light on the field of security. Private security in the Latin American context. Specifically, the services offered and performed by private security are investigated, grouped into three axes: the first of them attempts to account for some elements that allow them to be framed within the currents of situational prevention around avoiding the commission of a crime; The second of them attempts to account for a whole series of activities linked to risk management in general and in a broader way than merely related to insecurity and, finally, as a third axis, a series of risk management activities. extra security character that the guards carry out and that was conceptualized as a proletarian amalgam.