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Criminal Justice and Privatisation: Key Issues and Debates book cover

1st Edition

Criminal Justice and Privatisation Key Issues and Debates

Edited By Philip Bean Copyright 2020
272 Pages
by Routledge

272 Pages
by Routledge

272 Pages
by Routledge
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Over the past few years, opposition to the privatisation in public services in the United Kingdom and elsewhere has grown, especially in areas related to criminal justice. Privatisation has existed within the British criminal justice system at least since the early 1990s, but the privatisation of the Probation Service in 2014 was a significant landmark in this process and signalled a larger... Read more

Table of Contents

List of Contributors

  1. Privatisation in Criminal Justice. An Overview

    2. Philip Bean

  2. Probation for Profit: Neoliberalism Magical Thinking and Evidence Refusal

    3. Peter Raynor

  3. Electronic Monitoring, Neoliberalism and the Shaping of Community Sanctions

    4. Mike Nellis

  4. Who Needs Experts? The Commercialisation of the Probation Ideal

    5. Maurice Vanstone?

  5. The Gift Relationship: What We Lose When Rehabilitation is Privatised

    6. Lawrence Burke And Steve Collett

  6. Through the Gate

    7. John Harding

  7. The Role of Payment by Results in Privatising the Probation Service

    8. Russell Webster

  8. Privatisation of Policing; Objective Reform, Ideological Revolution or Subjective Revenge and Retribution?

    9. John Grieve

  9. Private Security and the Privatisation of Criminal Justice

    10. Adam White

  10. Privatisation Marketisation and the Penal Voluntary Sector

    11. Mike Maguire

  11. Contracts, compliance care and control. The experience of privatisation in one probation trust.Contracts compliance care and control: the experience of privatisation in one probation trust.Contracts, Compliance Care and Control: The Experience of Privatisation in One Probation Trust.

    12. Martin Graham

  12. Does it Work? Does it Pay?

    13. Nigel Whiskin

  13. Legitimacy in Probation and the Impact of Transforming Rehabilitation

    14. John Deering

  14. What Does Privatisation Mean for Probation Supervision?

    15. Jane Dominey

  15. Privatisation of Criminal Justice in Eastern Europe

    16. Simonas Nikartis

  16. Privatisation of Criminal Justice in Australia.

    17. Marietta Martinovic, Marg Liddell & David Daley Sessional lecturer, Criminology and Justice, former Director, Community Based Services, Western Australia Department of Justice.

  17. Correctional Privatisation in the United States.

Brett Burkhardt & Story Edison

Index

Biography

Philip Bean was formerly a probation officer in the Inner London Probation and After Care Service (until 1970) before taking up appointments for the Medical Research Council. He is now Emeritus Professor of Criminology and Criminal Justice at the University of Loughborough. He is the author/editor of over 30 books and of numerous papers in learned journals mainly on mental disorder and crime, and drugs and crime, but also on other matters in criminology namely criminological theory.

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