1st Edition

Privatising Punishment in Europe?

Edited By Tom Daems, Tom Vander Beken Copyright 2018
200 Pages
by Routledge

200 Pages 2 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

200 Pages 2 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

In recent times the question of private sector involvement in public affairs has become framed in altogether new terms. Across Europe, there has been a growth in various forms of public-private cooperation in building and maintaining (new) penal institutions and an increasing presence of private companies offering security services within penal institutions as well as delivering security goods... Read more

1.Privatising punishment in Europe? An agenda for research and policy (Tom Daems and Tom Vander Beken)

2.Privatizing criminal justice: An historical analysis of entrepreneurship and innovation (Malcolm M. Feeley)

3.Privatization of punishment in Poland (Krzysztof Krajewski)

4.Privatization of punishment in Belgium (Danique Gudders and Tom Daems)

5. Privatising probation in England and Wales: Manufacturing a crisis to create a market? (Lol Burke)

6. French probation and prisoner resettlement: Involuntary ‘privatisation’ and corporatism (Martine Herzog-Evans)

7. Electronically monitoring offenders as ‘coercive connectivity’: Commerce and penality in surveillance capitalism (Mike Nellis)

8.Uneven business: Privatization of immigration detention in Europe (Michael Flynn, Matthew B. Flynn and Eryn Wagnon)

9.What is lost when punishment is privatized? (Lucia Zedner)

Biography

Tom Daems is Associate Professor at the Leuven Institute of Criminology (LINC), KU Leuven, Belgium.

Tom Vander Beken is Professor of Criminal Law and Criminology at the Institute for International Research on Criminal Policy, Ghent University, Belgium.