The Private Sector and Criminal Justice

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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. Front Matter ....Pages i-xvii The Private Sector and Criminal Justice: An Introduction (Stuart Lister, Anthea Hucklesby)....Pages 1-21 Vanishing Boundaries of Control: Implications for Security and Sovereignty of the Changing Nature and Global Expansion of Neoliberal Criminal Justice Provision (Robert P. Weiss)....Pages 23-63 Just Another Industry? (De)Regulation, Public Expectations and Private Security (Adam White)....Pages 65-96 Privatisation of Police: Themes from Australia (Rick Sarre, Tim Prenzler)....Pages 97-134 ‘The Real Private Police’: Franchising Constables and the Emergence of Employer Supported Policing (Mark Button, Alison Wakefield)....Pages 135-159 Quality, Professionalism and the Distribution of Power in Public and Private Sector Prisons (Ben Crewe, Alison Liebling)....Pages 161-194 Competing to Control in the Community: What Chance for a Culture of Care? (Jane Dominey, Loraine Gelsthorpe)....Pages 195-222 A Complicated Business: The Operational Realities of Privatised Electronic Monitoring of Offenders (Anthea Hucklesby)....Pages 223-258 ‘The Treasure Island of the EM Market’: State-Commercial Collaboration and Electronic Monitoring in England and Wales (Mike Nellis)....Pages 259-291 Back Matter ....Pages 293-312