The private sector and criminal justice

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The private sector and criminal justice

Anthea Hucklesby, Stuart Lister, editors

Palgrave Macmillan, c2018

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Includes bibliographical references and index

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This book brings together a collection of essays by leading criminologists to explore the relationship between the private sector and criminal justice. The private sector has become an increasingly important 'partner' in contemporary criminal justice with the unprecedented growth of public sector 'outsourcing' arrangements. This has resulted in an increasingly pluralised and marketised landscape of contemporary criminal justice. This edited collection examines these developments in different jurisdictions as well as in a wide range of criminal justice contexts and sectors including: the private security sector, policing, prisons, probation and community sanctions, and electronic monitoring. In so doing, it addresses fundamental normative, ideological and ethical debates about the role of the private sector within this new and evolving landscape, as well as descriptive and analytical questions about how criminal justice structures, agencies and processes function and with what effect. The Private Sector and Criminal Justice is essential reading for scholars and students of criminology, penology, policing, security, criminal justice and organisational and management studies. It is also an invaluable resource for criminal justice practitioners.

Table of Contents

  • Chapter 1. The Private Sector and Criminal Justice
  • Stuart Lister and Anthea Hucklesby Chapter 2. Vanishing Boundaries of Control
  • Robert Weiss Chapter 3. Just Another Industry?
  • Adam White Chapter 4. Privatisation of Police
  • Rick Sarre and Tim Prenzler. Chapter 5. "The Real Private Police"
  • Mark Button and Alison Wakefield. Chapter 6. Quality, Professionalism, and the Distribution of Power in Public and Private Sector Prisons
  • Ben Crewe and Alison Liebling Chapter 7. Competing to Control in the Community
  • Jane Dominey and Loraine Gelsthorpe Chapter 8. A Complicated Business
  • Anthea Hucklesby Chapter 9. "The Treasure Island of the EM Market"
  • Mike Nellis.

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