Privatising Criminal Justice

Author : Christopher Hamerton,Sue Hobbs
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2022
Category : Criminal justice, Administration of
ISBN : 1138891177

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Privatisation in Criminal Justice by Christopher Hamerton,Sue Hobbs Pdf

In recent years, the criminal justice sector has made various strategic partnerships with the private sector, exemplified by initiatives within the police, the prison system, offender services and legal defense. This has seen unprecedented growth in the past quarter of a century, and a veritable explosion under the tenure of the Coalition government in the United Kingdom. This book explores the social, cultural, and political context of privatization in the criminal justice sector. Key areas of domestic and global concern are highlighted and illustrated with detailed case studies of important developments. It connects the study of criminology and criminal justice to the wider study of public policy, government institutions, and political decision making and provides a theoretical and practical framework for evaluating collaborative public and private sector response to social problems at the beginning of the twenty-first century.

Author : Christopher Hamerton,Sue Hobbs
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2022
Category : Criminal justice, Administration of
ISBN : 1138891169

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Privatisation in Criminal Justice by Christopher Hamerton,Sue Hobbs Pdf

In recent years, the criminal justice sector has made various strategic partnerships with the private sector, exemplified by initiatives within the police, the prison system, offender services and legal defense. This has seen unprecedented growth in the past quarter of a century, and a veritable explosion under the tenure of the Coalition government in the United Kingdom. This book explores the social, cultural, and political context of privatization in the criminal justice sector. Key areas of domestic and global concern are highlighted and illustrated with detailed case studies of important developments. It connects the study of criminology and criminal justice to the wider study of public policy, government institutions, and political decision making and provides a theoretical and practical framework for evaluating collaborative public and private sector response to social problems at the beginning of the twenty-first century.

Author : Wendy Fitzgibbon,John Lea
Publisher : Pluto Press (UK)
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0745399258

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Privatising Justice by Wendy Fitzgibbon,John Lea Pdf

A powerful petition against the privatisation of the criminal justice system.

Author : Albertson, Kevin,Corcoran, Mary
Publisher : Policy Press
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2020-07-03
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781447345701

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Marketisation and Privatisation in Criminal Justice by Albertson, Kevin,Corcoran, Mary Pdf

This collection offers a comprehensive review of the origins, scale and breadth of the privatisation and marketisation revolution across the criminal justice system. Leading academics and researchers assess the consequences of market-driven criminal justice in a wide range of contexts, from prison and probation to policing, migrant detention, rehabilitation and community programmes. Using economic, sociological and criminological perspectives, illuminated by accessible case studies, they consider the shifting roles and interactions of the public, private and voluntary sectors. As privatisation, outsourcing and the impact of market cultures spread further across the system, the authors look ahead to future developments and signpost the way to reform in a ‘post-market’ criminal justice sphere.

Author : Philip Bean
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2020-06-07
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780429824951

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Criminal Justice and Privatisation by Philip Bean Pdf

Over the past few years, opposition to the privatisation in public services in the United Kingdom and elsewhere has grown, especially in areas related to criminal justice. Privatisation has existed within the British criminal justice system at least since the early 1990s, but the privatisation of the Probation Service in 2014 was a significant landmark in this process and signalled a larger programme of privatisation to come. Criminal Justice and Privatisation works to examine the impact of privatisation on the criminal justice system, and to explore the potential effects of privatising other areas including the police and the security industry. By including chapters from practitioners and academics alike, the book offers an expansive overview of the criminal justice system, as well as observations of the effect of privatisation at ground level. By also exploring the way the private companies are paid, how they operate and what private companies do, this book offers an insight into and the future of privatisation within the public sector. Written in a clear and direct style this book will appeal to students and scholars in criminology, sociology, cultural studies, social theory and those interested in learning about the effects of privatisation.

Author : Albertson, Kevin,Corcoran, Mary
Publisher : Policy Press
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2020-07-03
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781447346180

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Marketisation and Privatisation in Criminal Justice by Albertson, Kevin,Corcoran, Mary Pdf

This collection offers a comprehensive review of the origins, scale and breadth of the privatisation and marketisation revolution across the criminal justice system. Leading academics and researchers assess the consequences of market-driven criminal justice in a wide range of contexts, from prison and probation to policing, migrant detention, rehabilitation and community programmes. Using economic, sociological and criminological perspectives, illuminated by accessible case studies, they consider the shifting roles and interactions of the public, private and voluntary sectors. As privatisation, outsourcing and the impact of market cultures spread further across the system, the authors look ahead to future developments and signpost the way to reform in a ‘post-market’ criminal justice sphere.

Author : Alex Luscombe,Kevin Walby,Derek Silva
Publisher : UBC Press
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2022-06-15
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780774866873

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Changing of the Guards by Alex Luscombe,Kevin Walby,Derek Silva Pdf

Although service outsourcing has spread throughout Canada’s prisons and jails, into its police, courts, and national security institutions, and along the border in recent decades, the expanding scope and pace of corporate involvement in criminal justice functions has not yet been closely investigated. Changing of the Guards provides a detailed assessment of privatization and private influence across the twenty-first-century Canadian criminal justice system. It illuminates the many consequences of public–private arrangements for law and policy, transparency, accountability, the administration of justice, equity, and the public. This trenchant analysis raises issues that are relevant in Canada and abroad.

Author : Anthea Hucklesby,Stuart Lister
Publisher : Springer
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2017-12-22
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781137370648

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The Private Sector and Criminal Justice by Anthea Hucklesby,Stuart Lister Pdf

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.

Author : Tom Daems,Tom Vander Beken
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 195 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2018-01-29
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781351979924

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Privatising Punishment in Europe? by Tom Daems,Tom Vander Beken Pdf

In recent times the question of private sector involvement in public affairs has become framed in altogether new terms. Across Europe, there has been a growth in various forms of public-private cooperation in building and maintaining (new) penal institutions and an increasing presence of private companies offering security services within penal institutions as well as delivering security goods such as electronic monitoring and other equipment to penal authorities. Such developments are part of a wider trend towards privatising and marketising security. Bringing together key scholars in criminology and penology from across Europe and beyond, this book maps and describes trends of privatising punishment throughout Europe, paying attention both to prisons and community sanctions. In doing so, it initiates a continent-wide dialogue among academics and key public and private actors on the future of privatisation in Europe. Debates on the privatisation of punishment in Europe are still underdeveloped and this book plays a pioneering and agenda-setting role in developing this dialogue.

Author : Roger Matthews
Publisher : SAGE Publications Limited
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1989-12
Category : Social Science
ISBN : UOM:49015001341669

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Privatizing Criminal Justice by Roger Matthews Pdf

Assesses the state of the debate on the privatization of justice. Key aspects of the arguments are examined and compared, as the authors clarify both the theoretical issues and the practical problems involved in the privatization of justice.

Author : Bruce L. Benson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 63 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Corrections
ISBN : 0945999542

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Privatization in Criminal Justice by Bruce L. Benson Pdf

Author : Deering, John,Feilzer, Martina
Publisher : Policy Press
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2015-05-29
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781447327295

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Privatising probation by Deering, John,Feilzer, Martina Pdf

Over the past 20 years, there have been many changes to probation governance in England and Wales aimed at controlling it from central government. However, the changes introduced under the Transforming Rehabilitation (TR) agenda, introduced in 2013, are unprecedented: the service has been divided and part-privatised and no longer exists as a unified public body. This topical book looks at the attitudes of probation practitioners and managers to the philosophy, values, and practicalities of TR. Based on a unique online survey of over 1300 respondents which found that they were unequivocally opposed to its broad aims and objectives, it provides unique insights into the values, attitudes and beliefs of probation staff and their delivery of services. Including broader discussion of the privatisation/marketisation debate, the context of privatisation of criminal justice services and questions of legitimacy and governance, this is essential reading for everyone interested in the future of the service.

Author : Bruce L. Benson
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1998-08-01
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780814709122

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To Serve and Protect by Bruce L. Benson Pdf

In contrast to government's predominant role in criminal justice today, for many centuries crime control was almost entirely private and community-based. Government police forces, prosecutors, courts, and prisons are all recent historical developments–results of a political and bureaucratic social experiment which, Bruce Benson argues, neither protects the innocent nor dispenses justice. In this comprehensive and timely book, Benson analyzes the accelerating trend toward privatization in the criminal justice system. In so doing, To Serve and Protect challenges and transcends both liberal and conservative policies that have supported government's pervasive role. With lucidity and rigor, he examines the gamut of private-sector input to criminal justice–from private-sector outsourcing of prisons and corrections, security, arbitration to full "private justice" such as business and community-imposed sanctions and citizen crime prevention. Searching for the most cost-effective methods of reducing crime and protecting civil liberties, Benson weighs the benefits and liabilities of various levels of privatization, offering correctives for the current gridlock that will make criminal justice truly accountable to the citizenry and will simultaneously result in reductions in the unchecked power of government.

Author : Fraser Institute (Vancouver, B.C.)
Publisher : The Fraser Institute
Page : 23 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Corrections
ISBN : 9780889751828

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Privatizing Correctional Services by Fraser Institute (Vancouver, B.C.) Pdf

Author : Philip Bean
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2018-09-03
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781351134491

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Probation and Privatisation by Philip Bean Pdf

Privatisation was introduced into the probation service on the 1st June 2014 whereby work with medium and low risk offenders went to a number of private and voluntary bodies, work with high risk offenders remained with the State. The National Probation Service (NPS) covered State work whilst the 35 existing Probation Trusts were replaced by 21 Community Rehabilitation Companies (CRCs). Staff were allocated to either side of the divide but all remained as probation officers. The effect was that the existing probation service lost control of all but 30,000 of the most high risk cases, with the other 220,000 low to medium risk offenders being farmed out to private firms. Privatisation was justified as the only available way of achieving important policy objectives of extending post release supervision to offenders on short sentences, a group who are the most prolific offenders with high reconviction rates yet who receive no statutory support. This book describes the process by which the probation service became privatised, assessing its impact on the probation service itself, and on the criminal justice system generally. It considers both the justifications for privatisation, as well as the criticisms of it, and asks to what extent the probation service can survive such changes, and what future it has as a service dedicated to the welfare of offenders. It demonstrates how the privatisation of probation can be seen as a trend away from traditional public service in criminal justice towards an emphasis on efficiency and cost effectiveness. This book is essential reading for criminology students engaged with criminal justice, social policy, probation, punishment and working with offenders. It will also be key reading for practitioners and policy makers in jurisdictions where there is an interest in extending their own privatisation practice.