Privatising Criminal Justice: History, Neoliberal Penality and the Commodification of Crime

ISBN-13: 9781138891173 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 328 str.

Christopher Hamerton; Sue Hobbs

Opis

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.

Spis treści

1.Introduction  2.From Nationalisation to Privatisation, or Bringing Capitalism to the People  3.The Free Market Panacea, and Putting the State up for Sale  4.Transatlantic Crossing, or the Appeal of American Know-How in the Age of Risk, Responsibilisation, and Rising Crime  5.Public Sector Outsourcing, the Contract Culture and the Myth of the Regulatory State  6.The Private and Public Police, or There and Back  7.The Public and Private Police, or Back to the Future  8.Prison Privatisation and the Foundation of Public Privilege  9.Prison Privatisation and Normalisation in the Neoliberal State: Between Dispersal of Decency and Diffusion of Duty  10.The Ascendency of the Business Ideal and the Marketisation of Offender Services  11.Interrogating the Failed Probation Experiment, or It Wasn’t Broken so Why Did They Try and Fix It?