Changing of the Guards: Private Influences, Privatization, and Criminal Justice in Canada

Author:   Alex Luscombe ,  Kevin Walby ,  Derek Silva
Publisher:   University of British Columbia Press
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9780774866842


Pages:   290
Publication Date:   15 June 2022
Format:   Hardback
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Changing of the Guards: Private Influences, Privatization, and Criminal Justice in Canada


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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 been closely investigated. Changing of the Guards provides a comprehensive 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 public debate. Within the contexts of policing, sentencing, imprisonment, border control, and national security, the contributors explore crucial questions about legitimacy, policy diffusion, racism, inequality, corruption, and democracy itself. Changing of the Guards is a long overdue account of the social, political, and historical uniqueness of the Canadian criminal justice field, and the key issues raised by this trenchant analysis are relevant both within and beyond Canada.

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Author:   Alex Luscombe ,  Kevin Walby ,  Derek Silva
Publisher:   University of British Columbia Press
Imprint:   University of British Columbia Press
Weight:   0.580kg
ISBN:  

9780774866842


ISBN 10:   0774866845
Pages:   290
Publication Date:   15 June 2022
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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Table of Contents

Foreword: Privatization of Criminal Justice: Emotional, Intellectual, and Political Responses / Adam White Introduction: Canadian Perspectives on Private Influences and Privatization in Criminal Justice / Alex Luscombe, Kevin Walby, and Derek Silva Part 1: Private Provision and Purchase of Security 1 Police, Private Security, and Institutional Isomorphism / Massimiliano Mulone 2 Private Policing of Images in Canada / Steven Kohm 3 Postsecondary Security in the Canadian Context / Erin Gibbs Van Brunschot Part 2: Private Actors in City Spaces and Surveillance 4 Policing Canadian Smart Cities: Technology, Race, and Private Influence in Canadian Law Enforcement / Jamie Duncan and Daniella Barreto 5 Platforms and Privatizing Lines: Business Improvement Areas, Municipal Apps, and the Marketization of Public Service / Debra Mackinnon Part 3: Private Influences and Privatization in Courts, Prisons, and Jails 6 Private Risk Assessment Instruments and Artificial Intelligence in Canada’s Criminal Justice System / Nicholas Pope and Rebecca Jaremko Bromwich 7 The Implications of Food Privatization in Jails: A Case Study of the Ottawa-Carleton Detention Centre / Kaitlin MacKenzie 8 Shape Shifting: The Penal Voluntary Sector and the Governance of Domestic Violence / Rashmee Singh Part 4: Private Actors in National Security and Border Control 9 Where Public Meets Private: Evidence of an Emerging “Industrial-Espionage Complex” in Canada / Alex Luscombe 10 The Role of Privatization in Canada’s Immigration Detention Centres / Jona Zyfi and Audrey Macklin Postscript: Privatization Cultures and the Racial Order: A Dispatch from the United States / Torin Monahan Index

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Alex Luscombe is a PhD candidate in the Centre for Criminology and Sociolegal Studies at the University of Toronto and a Junior Fellow at Massey College. He serves on the editorial board of Criminological Highlights. Kevin Walby is an associate professor of criminal justice at the University of Winnipeg and director of the Centre for Access to Information and Justice. He is co-editor of the Journal of Prisoners on Prisons. Derek Silva is an associate professor of criminology at King’s University College at Western University. His work has appeared in several journals, including Punishment & Society and Crime, Media, Culture. Contributors: Daniella Barreto, Jamie Duncan, Rebecca Jaremko Bromwich, Erin Gibbs Van Brunschot, Steven Kohm, Alex Luscombe, Kaitlin MacKenzie, Debra Mackinnon, Audrey Macklin, Massimiliano Mulone, Nicholas Pope, Derek Silva, Rashmee Singh, Kevin Walby, Jona Zyfi

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