Privatization In Criminal Justice

Author : Christopher Hamerton,Sue Hobbs
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2022-09-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317487067

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Privatising Criminal Justice by Christopher Hamerton,Sue Hobbs Pdf

Privatising Criminal Justice explores the social, cultural and political context of privatisation in the criminal justice sector. 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 and offender services. This has seen unprecedented growth in the past 30 years and a veritable explosion under the tenure of the coalition government in the UK. This book highlights key areas of domestic and global concern and illustrates, 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. In doing so, Privatising Criminal Justice 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. An accessible and compelling read, this book will appeal to students and scholars of criminology, criminal justice, sociology and politics and all those interested in how privatisation has shaped the contemporary criminal justice system.

Author : Roger Matthews
Publisher : SAGE Publications Limited
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Law
ISBN : UOM:39015016967518

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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 : 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 : 296 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Criminal justice, Administration of
ISBN : 1138330930

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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 : Trevor C.W. Farrow
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2014-04-30
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781442695030

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Civil Justice, Privatization, and Democracy by Trevor C.W. Farrow Pdf

Privatization is occurring throughout the public justice system, including courts, tribunals, and state-sanctioned private dispute resolution regimes. Driven by a widespread ethos of efficiency-based civil justice reform, privatization claims to decrease costs, increase speed, and improve access to the tools of justice. But it may also lead to procedural unfairness, power imbalances, and the breakdown of our systems of democratic governance. Civil Justice, Privatization, and Democracy demonstrates the urgent need to publicize, politicize, debate, and ultimately temper these moves towards privatized justice. Written by Trevor C.W. Farrow, a former litigation lawyer and current Chair of the Canadian Forum on Civil Justice, Civil Justice, Privatization, and Democracy does more than just bear witness to the privatization initiatives that define how we think about and resolve almost all non-criminal disputes. It articulates the costs and benefits of these privatizing initiatives, particularly their potential negative impacts on the way we regulate ourselves in modern democracies, and it makes recommendations for future civil justice practice and reform.

Author : Bruce L. Benson
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1998-08
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780814713273

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To Serve and Protect by Bruce L. Benson Pdf

In his provocative analysis, Benson (economics, Florida State U.; The Independent Institute, Oakland, CA) argues for contracting out and other controversial "private justice" options as preferable to government's pervasive and misguided criminal justice role. "Why the timing may be right" is the theme of the preface by Marvin Wolfgang, Director of the U. of Pennsylvania's Sellin Center for Studies in Criminology and Criminal Law. The Austrian School of the series title favors less government economic control. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Author : Alex Luscombe,Kevin Walby,Derek Silva
Publisher : UBC Press
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 48,5 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 : Bruce L. Benson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 63 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Corrections
ISBN : 0945999542

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Privatization in Criminal Justice by Bruce L. Benson Pdf

Author : Michael J Gilbert,David Schichor
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2001-01-01
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781437734454

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Privatization of Criminal Justice

Author : Bruce L. Benson
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 41,8 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 : Gerald G. Gaes,Scott D. Camp,Julianne B. Nelson,William G. Saylor
Publisher : Rowman Altamira
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2004-09-14
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780759115361

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Measuring Prison Performance by Gerald G. Gaes,Scott D. Camp,Julianne B. Nelson,William G. Saylor Pdf

Gaes and his distinguished coauthors offer a comprehensive analysis of public versus private management of prisons, a competition that originated in the 1980s with the introduction of private facilities into the criminal justice system. The authors argue that prison performance must be measured in reference to the goals of a particular prison system and introduce the technique of multilevel modeling to allow for simultaneous measurement of the individual and the institution. They also show how their analytic framework can be applied to other criminal justice components_prosecution, adjudication, postrelease supervision, policing_and to evaluating the privatization of almost any publicly administered service. They contend that the ability to meaningfully compare public and private prisons can better inform penal policy and improve prison performance and accountability. This book will be a valuable resource for public administrators and policy analysts, corrections personnel and criminologists.

Author : Alex Friedman
Publisher : SCB Distributors
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2010-04-28
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780932863843

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Capitalist Punishment by Alex Friedman Pdf

Over 100,000 people in the U.S. are incarcerated in prisons owned and operated by private corporations--a booming business. But how are the human rights of prisoners and prison employees affected when prisons are run for profit? An accomplished group of human rights writers and activists explores the historical, political and economic context of private prisons: * How are prisoners' lives affected by privatization? * How does it impact prison labor and prison employees? * How and why are private prisons becoming transnational? * Are women, children, and African and Native Americans affected differently from other populations? * How is privatization connected to the war on drugs, the criminalization of poverty and 'tough on crime' politics? The preface is by Sir Nigel Rodley, Professor of Law at the University of Essex; former United Nations Special Rapporteur for Torture; and knighted in 1999 for recognition of services to human rights and international law.

Author : Fraser Institute (Vancouver, B.C.)
Publisher : The Fraser Institute
Page : 23 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Corrections
ISBN : 9780889751828

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

Author : Gary W. Bowman
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 146 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2023-04-14
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000949179

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Privatizing Correctional Institutions by Gary W. Bowman Pdf

With more than one million people behind bars, the United States imprisons a larger share of its population than any other industrialized nation. This has precipitated a serious overcrowding problem with federal and state prisons currently operating well beyond capacity. Conventional efforts appear unable to cope with the increasing shortage of beds or with inadequate rehabilitation services. A bold solution is required; increasingly it is being seen to reside in the private sector. This timely volume explores the issues of private versus public financing, construction, and management of medium-and high-security prisons.Private prisons are not a new concept in the United States. They have existed in several forms since the eighteenth century. The opening chapters evaluate historical cases of prisons for profit, examining the concerns of labor, abuses of inmates, and the source and resolution of disputes between private and public sectors. These chapters argue that the experience gained through privatization does not justify current opposition from civil libertarians or labor unions.Chapters dealing with the modern contracting out of complete management and limited services document the growing trend toward privatization and instances of public/private partnership in prison industries.The assembled evidence indicates clearly that privately run prisons have shown significant cost savings and good quality of provision for prisoners while still being profitable. However, the authors caution that these promising results must be reinforced by public safeguards in the contracting stage and monitoring to assure good service and security. With the American prison system in disarray, the public interest demands that government look beyond the public or private identity of those who wish to provide correctional services and focus instead on who can provide the best services at a given cost. It is essential to state that correctional services should attain several objectives and not merely cost minimization. The analysis and recommendations presented here will aid in the task. Privatizing Correctional Institutions will be of interest to law-enforcement officials, public policy analysts, penologists, and criminologists.

Author : Philip Bean
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 54,5 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.