Overview

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.

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Author:   Anthea Hucklesby ,  Stuart Lister
Publisher:   Palgrave Macmillan
Imprint:   Palgrave Macmillan
Edition:   1st ed. 2018
Weight:   0.560kg
ISBN:  

9781137370631

ISBN 10:   1137370637
Pages:   312
Publication Date:   07 February 2018
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Chapter 1. The Private Sector and Criminal Justice; Stuart Lister and Anthea Hucklesby Chapter 2. Vanishing Boundaries of Control; Robert Weiss Chapter 3. Just Another Industry?; Adam White Chapter 4. Privatisation of Police; Rick Sarre and Tim Prenzler. Chapter 5. The Real Private Police ; Mark Button and Alison Wakefield. Chapter 6. Quality, Professionalism, and the Distribution of Power in Public and Private Sector Prisons; Ben Crewe and Alison Liebling Chapter 7. Competing to Control in the Community; Jane Dominey and Loraine Gelsthorpe Chapter 8. A Complicated Business; Anthea Hucklesby Chapter 9. The Treasure Island of the EM Market ; Mike Nellis.

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Anthea Hucklesby is Professor of Criminal Justice at the Centre for Criminal Justice Studies in the School of Law at the University of Leeds, UK, and Pro-Dean for Research and Innovation. Stuart Lister is Senior Lecturer in Criminal Justice at the Centre for Criminal Justice Studies in the School of Law, University of Leeds, UK, where he teaches and researches in the fields of criminal justice, policing and security.

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