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Privatising Criminal Justice : History, Neoliberal Penality and the Commodification of Crime.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Oxford : Taylor & Francis Group, 2019Copyright date: ©2023Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (317 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781317487074
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Privatising Criminal JusticeDDC classification:
  • 364.941
LOC classification:
  • HV7419 .H364 2022
Online resources:
Contents:
Cover -- Endorsement -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- About the authors -- Acknowledgements -- List of abbreviations -- 1 Introduction -- 2 From nationalisation to privatisation, or bringing capitalism to the people -- 3 The free market panacea and putting the State up for sale -- 4 Transatlantic crossing, or the appeal of American know-how in the age of risk, responsibilisation and rising crime -- 5 Public sector outsourcing, the contract culture and the myth of the regulatory State -- 6 The private and public police, or there and back -- 7 The public and private police, or back to the future -- 8 Prison privatisation and the foundation of public privilege -- 9 Prison privatisation and normalisation in the neoliberal State: between dispersal of decency and diffusion of duty -- 10 The ascendency of the business ideal and the marketisation of offender services -- 11 Interrogating the failed probation experiment, or it wasn't broken, so why did they try to fix it? -- Index.
Summary: Privatising Criminal Justice explores the social, cultural, and political context of privatisation in the criminal justice sector.
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Cover -- Endorsement -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- About the authors -- Acknowledgements -- List of abbreviations -- 1 Introduction -- 2 From nationalisation to privatisation, or bringing capitalism to the people -- 3 The free market panacea and putting the State up for sale -- 4 Transatlantic crossing, or the appeal of American know-how in the age of risk, responsibilisation and rising crime -- 5 Public sector outsourcing, the contract culture and the myth of the regulatory State -- 6 The private and public police, or there and back -- 7 The public and private police, or back to the future -- 8 Prison privatisation and the foundation of public privilege -- 9 Prison privatisation and normalisation in the neoliberal State: between dispersal of decency and diffusion of duty -- 10 The ascendency of the business ideal and the marketisation of offender services -- 11 Interrogating the failed probation experiment, or it wasn't broken, so why did they try to fix it? -- Index.

Privatising Criminal Justice explores the social, cultural, and political context of privatisation in the criminal justice sector.

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