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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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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.
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Table of contents (9 chapters)
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
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