Criminal justice and privatisation: key issues and debates

Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- CONTENTS -- List of Contributors -- 1 Criminal justice and privatisation: introduction -- 2 Probation for profit: neoliberalism, magical thinking and evidence refusal -- 3 Electronic monitoring, neoliberalism and the shaping of community sanctions -- 4 Who needs experts? The commercialisation of the probation ideal -- 5 The gift relationship: what we lose when rehabilitation is privatised -- 6 Through the Gate -- 7 The role of payment by results in privatising the probation service -- 8 Privatisation of policing: objective reform, ideological revolution or subjective revenge and retribution? -- 9 Private security and the privatisation of criminal justice -- 10 Privatisation, marketisation and the penal voluntary sector -- 11 Contracts, compliance, care and control: the experience of privatisation in one probation trust -- 12 Does it work? Does it pay? -- 13 Legitimacy in probation and the impact of Transforming Rehabilitation -- 14 What does privatisation mean for probation supervision? -- 15 Privatization of criminal justice in Eastern Europe -- 16 Privatisation of criminal justice in Australia -- 17 Correctional privatization in the United States -- Index.

"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 programme of privatisation to come. Criminal Justice and Privatisation works to examine the impact of privatisation on the criminal justice system, and to explore the potential effects of privatising other areas including the police and the security industry. By including chapters from practitioners and academics alike, the book offers an expansive overview of the criminal justice system, as well as observations of the effect of privatisation at ground level. By also exploring the way the private companies are paid, how they operate and what private companies do, this book offers an insight into and the future of privatisation within the public sector. Written in a clear and direct style this book will appeal to students and scholars in criminology, sociology, cultural studies, social theory and those interested in learning about the effects of privatisation."