Marketisation and Privatisation in Criminal Justice

Front cover
Title Page
Copyright Page
Table of Contents
List of figures and tables
List of acronyms
Notes on contributors
Acknowledgements
Introduction: marketisation and privatisation in criminal justice: an overview
Part I: Introduction and theoretical frameworks
	1. Market society utopianism in penal politics
	2. Outcomes-based contracts in the UK public sector
	3. The carceral state and the interpenetration of interests: commercial, governmental and civil society interests in criminal justice
	4. Understanding the privatisation of probation through the lens of Bourdieu’s field theory
	5. The progress of marketisation: the prison and probation experience
Part II: Experiences of marketisation in the public sector
	6. The ‘soft power’ of marketisation: the administrative assembling of Irish youth justice work
	7. Police outsourcing and labour force vulnerability
	8. Marketisation or corporatisation? Making sense of private influence in public policing across Canada and the US
	9. Marketisation and competition in criminal legal aid: implications for access to justice
	10. Holding private prisons to account: what role for Controllers as ‘the eyes and ears of the state’?
	11. A flawed revolution? Interrogating the Transforming Rehabilitation changes in England and Wales through the prism of a Community Justice Court
Part III: Marketisation and the voluntary sector
	12. Constructive ambiguity, market imaginaries and the penal voluntary sector in England and Wales
	13. Marketisation of women’s organisations in the criminal justice sector
	14. Surviving the revolution? The voluntary sector under Transforming Rehabilitation in England and Wales
Part IV: Beyond institutions: marketisation beyond the criminal justice institution
	15. Neo-liberal imaginaries and GPS tracking in England and Wales
	16. Misery as business: how immigration detention became a cash cow in Britain’s borders
	17. Prison education: a Northern European wicked policy problem?
	18. Making local regulation better? Marketisation, privatisation and the erosion of social protection
	19. The ‘fearsome frowning face of the state’ and ex-prisoners: promoting employment or alienation, anger and perpetual punishment?
Conclusion: what has been learned
Index
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