Christopher Hamerton, Sue Hobbs

Privatising Criminal Justice

History, Neoliberal Penality and the Commodification of Crime

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Produktbeschreibung

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

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Jenny Stanford Publishing
• Seitenzahl: 302
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. September 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 621g
• ISBN-13: 9781138891166
• ISBN-10: 1138891169
• Artikelnr.: 60010903

Autorenporträt

Christopher Hamerton is currently Deputy Director of the Institute of Criminal Justice Research in the School of Economic, Social and Political Sciences at the University of Southampton, UK. Sue Hobbs is Adjunct Fellow with the School of Social Sciences and Psychology at Western Sydney University, Australia. She has wide practice experience in social and criminal justice.

Inhaltsangabe

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 and Fix It?