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The Private Sector and Criminal Justice

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Editors:
  1. Anthea Hucklesby

    1. School of Law, University of Leeds, Leeds, United Kingdom

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  2. Stuart Lister

    1. School of Law, University of Leeds, Leeds, United Kingdom

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  • Explores a broad range of theoretical and ethical debates surrounding private sector involvement in criminal justice

  • Brings together the top experts in this field

  • Questions the efficiency of privatised probation and prison services

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Table of contents (9 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xvii
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  2. The Private Sector and Criminal Justice: An Introduction

    • Stuart Lister, Anthea Hucklesby
    Pages 1-21

  3. Vanishing Boundaries of Control: Implications for Security and Sovereignty of the Changing Nature and Global Expansion of Neoliberal Criminal Justice Provision

    • Robert P. Weiss
    Pages 23-63

  4. Just Another Industry? (De)Regulation, Public Expectations and Private Security

    • Adam White
    Pages 65-96

  5. Privatisation of Police: Themes from Australia

    • Rick Sarre, Tim Prenzler
    Pages 97-134

  6. ‘The Real Private Police’: Franchising Constables and the Emergence of Employer Supported Policing

    • Mark Button, Alison Wakefield
    Pages 135-159

  7. Quality, Professionalism and the Distribution of Power in Public and Private Sector Prisons

    • Ben Crewe, Alison Liebling
    Pages 161-194

  8. Competing to Control in the Community: What Chance for a Culture of Care?

    • Jane Dominey, Loraine Gelsthorpe
    Pages 195-222

  9. A Complicated Business: The Operational Realities of Privatised Electronic Monitoring of Offenders

    • Anthea Hucklesby
    Pages 223-258

  10. ‘The Treasure Island of the EM Market’: State-Commercial Collaboration and Electronic Monitoring in England and Wales

    • Mike Nellis
    Pages 259-291

  11. Back Matter

    Pages 293-312
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About this book

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 functio
n 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.


Editors and Affiliations

  • School of Law, University of Leeds, Leeds, United Kingdom

    Anthea Hucklesby, Stuart Lister

About the editors

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.


Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: The Private Sector and Criminal Justice

  • Editors: Anthea Hucklesby, Stuart Lister

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-37064-8

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London

  • eBook Packages: Law and Criminology, Law and Criminology (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2018

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-137-37063-1Published: 07 February 2018

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-37064-8Published: 22 December 2017

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XVII, 312

  • Number of Illustrations: 3 b/w illustrations, 1 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Crime and Society, Criminal Justice, Prison Policy, Rehabilitation, Crime Control and Security

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