Privatizing The United States Justice System

Author : Gary W. Bowman,Simon Hakim,Paul Seidenstat
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : UOM:39015021552339

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Privatizing the United States Justice System by Gary W. Bowman,Simon Hakim,Paul Seidenstat Pdf

As more areas of government experience budget problems, the search for efficient and cost effective services has intensified. Private sector involvement is under heavy consideration. Twenty-eight original essays reflect expert opinions in three areas: police, adjudication, and corrections. Included are two reprinted articles, by Warren Burger, former Chief Justice of the United States and Richard Nealy, Chief Justice of the West Virginia Supreme Court. Perspectives range from desirability to implementation. Part one analyzes public and private provision of the various police functions with an evaluation of private police services. Part two focuses on the supply of private judiciary services in civil cases. Part three looks at privatizing correctional services, from supplies to complete private management.

Author : Trevor C.W. Farrow
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 53,7 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 : Gary W. Bowman
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 146 pages
File Size : 50,5 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 : Albertson, Kevin,Corcoran, Mary
Publisher : Policy Press
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 48,9 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 : Deena Varner
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2024
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0700636609

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From the Courtroom to the Boardroom by Deena Varner Pdf

"The era of mass incarceration has been associated with the idea of "law and order," referring to the carceral regime in which politicians exploited public anxieties over crime and funneled resources into policing and prisons. As important as this system was and remains, there has been a shift in recent years shaped by neoliberalism-the political, economic, and sociocultural program that has supplanted liberal democratic legal frameworks, subordinating them to operations of the market and mandating that private entities intervene in the creation, interpretation, and enforcement of law. While courts and legislatures play a significant role in shaping legal personhood in the United States, private, profit-driven institutions are increasingly responsible for determining the post-sentence consequences that people with criminal convictions face. The result has been a move from the courtroom to the boardroom, from a law-and-order society to a policy-and-order society. From the Courtroom to the Boardroom is an interdisciplinary cultural studies project that examines the role of the criminal justice system in implementing neoliberal restructuring in the United States, including the partial transfer of quasi-judicial authority to employers, landlords, lenders, social media companies, and other businesses. Deena Varner examines the way the consumer background report industry has privatized the surveillance and punishment of individuals, conflating crime with bad credit and eviction history. She looks at how Airbnb's 2018 policy of banning people convicted of crimes is an example of the way corporate entities are increasingly vested with the authority to determine things like the seriousness or severity of crimes. Varner also examines the phenomenon of "cancel culture," arguing that this is best understood not as an example of the culture wars but rather of the way judicial power has been transferred from the state to the individual judgments of citizens-a partial return to what Foucault described as the punitive model of infamy"--

Author : Bruce L. Benson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 63 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Corrections
ISBN : 0945999542

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Privatization in Criminal Justice by Bruce L. Benson Pdf

Author : Adrian James,A Keith Bottomley,Alison Liebling,Emma Clare
Publisher : SAGE Publications Limited
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1997-08-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 080397549X

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Privatizing Prisons by Adrian James,A Keith Bottomley,Alison Liebling,Emma Clare Pdf

This book makes public, for the first time, a full account of the development of the privatization of prisons, centred on the only full-scale empirical study yet to have been undertaken in Britain. After providing an up-to-date overview of the development of private sector involvement in penal practice in the United Kingdom, North America, Europe and Australia, the authors go on to describe the first two years in the life of Wolds Remand Prison - the first private prison in Britain. They look at the daily life for remand prisoners, assess the duties and morale of staff and compare the workings of Wolds to a new local prison in the public sector. The authors conclude by discussing some of the practical and theoretica

Author : Roger Matthews
Publisher : SAGE Publications Limited
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 44,5 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 : Donald Cohen,Allen Mikaelian
Publisher : The New Press
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2021-11-23
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781620976623

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The Privatization of Everything by Donald Cohen,Allen Mikaelian Pdf

The book the American Prospect calls “an essential resource for future reformers on how not to govern,” by America’s leading defender of the public interest and a bestselling historian “An essential read for those who want to fight the assault on public goods and the commons.” —Naomi Klein A sweeping exposé of the ways in which private interests strip public goods of their power and diminish democracy, the hardcover edition of The Privatization of Everything elicited a wide spectrum of praise: Kirkus Reviews hailed it as “a strong, economics-based argument for restoring the boundaries between public goods and private gains,” Literary Hub featured the book on a Best Nonfiction list, calling it “a far-reaching, comprehensible, and necessary book,” and Publishers Weekly dubbed it a “persuasive takedown of the idea that the private sector knows best.” From Diane Ravitch (“an important new book about the dangers of privatization”) to Heather McGhee (“a well-researched call to action”), the rave reviews mirror the expansive nature of the book itself, covering the impact of privatization on every aspect of our lives, from water and trash collection to the justice system and the military. Cohen and Mikaelian also demonstrate how citizens can—and are—wresting back what is ours: A Montana city took back its water infrastructure after finding that they could do it better and cheaper. Colorado towns fought back well-funded campaigns to preserve telecom monopolies and hamstring public broadband. A motivated lawyer fought all the way to the Supreme Court after the state of Georgia erected privatized paywalls around its legal code. “Enlightening and sobering” (Rosanne Cash), The Privatization of Everything connects the dots across a wide range of issues and offers what Cash calls “a progressive voice with a firm eye on justice [that] can carefully parse out complex issues for those of us who take pride in citizenship.”

Author : Bruce L. Benson
Publisher : San Francisco, CA : Pacific Research Institute for Public Policy
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : UOM:39015019406522

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The Enterprise of Law by Bruce L. Benson Pdf

Includes details on how private sector institutions can support social order, foster cooperation and reduce violent confrontations.

Author : Wendy Fitzgibbon,John Lea
Publisher : Pluto Press (UK)
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,5 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 : Brenda Cossman,Judy Fudge
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 512 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2002-01-01
Category : Law
ISBN : 0802085091

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Privatization, Law, and the Challenge to Feminism by Brenda Cossman,Judy Fudge Pdf

Examining eight case studies on the role of law in various arenas, this collection of essays addresses the reconfiguration of the relations between the state, the market, and the family caused by privatization.

Author : Chiara Cordelli
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2020-11-24
Category : BUSINESS & ECONOMICS
ISBN : 9780691205755

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The Privatized State by Chiara Cordelli Pdf

Why government outsourcing of public powers is making us less free Many governmental functions today—from the management of prisons and welfare offices to warfare and financial regulation—are outsourced to private entities. Education and health care are funded in part through private philanthropy rather than taxation. Can a privatized government rule legitimately? The Privatized State argues that it cannot. In this boldly provocative book, Chiara Cordelli argues that privatization constitutes a regression to a precivil condition—what philosophers centuries ago called "a state of nature." Developing a compelling case for the democratic state and its administrative apparatus, she shows how privatization reproduces the very same defects that Enlightenment thinkers attributed to the precivil condition, and which only properly constituted political institutions can overcome—defects such as provisional justice, undue dependence, and unfreedom. Cordelli advocates for constitutional limits on privatization and a more democratic system of public administration, and lays out the central responsibilities of private actors in contexts where governance is already extensively privatized. Charting a way forward, she presents a new conceptual account of political representation and novel philosophical theories of democratic authority and legitimate lawmaking. The Privatized State shows how privatization undermines the very reason political institutions exist in the first place, and advocates for a new way of administering public affairs that is more democratic and just.

Author : Alex Luscombe,Kevin Walby,Derek Silva
Publisher : UBC Press
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 46,8 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 : Antoni Verger,Clara Fontdevila,Adrián Zancajo
Publisher : Teachers College Press
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780807774724

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The Privatization of Education by Antoni Verger,Clara Fontdevila,Adrián Zancajo Pdf

Education privatization is a global phenomenon that has crystallized in countries with very different cultural, political, and economic backgrounds. In this book, the authors examine how privatization policies are being adopted and why so many countries are engaging in this type of education reform. The authors explore the contexts, key personnel, and policy initiatives that explain the worldwide advance of the private sector in education, and identify six different paths toward education privatization—as a drastic state sector reform (e.g., Chile, the U.K.), as an incremental reform (e.g., the U.S.A.), in social-democratic welfare states, as historical public-private partnerships (e.g., Netherlands, Spain), as de facto privatization in low-income countries, and privatization via disaster. Book Features: The first comprehensive, in-depth investigation of the political economy of education privatization at a global scale.An analysis of the different strategies, discourses, and agents that have contributed to advancing (and resisting) education privatization trends. An examination of the role of private corporations, policy entrepreneurs, philanthropic organizations, think-tanks, and teacher unions. “Rich in examples, careful in its analysis, important in its conclusions and recommendations for further work, this book is a vital, rigorous, up-to-date resource for education policy researchers.” —Stephen J. Ball, University College London “Few issues are as significant as is education privatization across the globe; few treatments of this issue offer both the breadth and nuanced understanding that this book does.” —Christopher Lubienski, Indiana University