Privatizing Criminal Justice

Informationen zum Autor Roger Matthews is a Senior Lecturer in Criminology and a member of the Centre for Criminology at Middlesex Polytechnic. He is co-editor (with Jock Young) of Confronting Crime (SAGE 1986) and editor of Informal Justice (SAGE 1988). Klappentext Without abdicating their ultimate responsibility for law enforcement and criminal justice, Western governments are increasingly seeking to delegate aspects of this task to the private and voluntary sectors. The contributors assess both the actual and potential impact of privatization in this highly controversial area, and examine the experience of private prisons, especially in North America, the activities of private security firms and current developments in electronic monitoring techniques. Privatizing Criminal Justice explores the changing relations between the state and the market and evaluates whether privatization can improve the control of crime and the administration of justice. Zusammenfassung Assesses the state of the debate on the privatization of justice. Key aspects of the arguments are examined and compared! as the authors clarify both the theoretical issues and the practical problems involved in the privatization of justice. Inhaltsverzeichnis Privatization in Perspective - Roger Matthews Private Prisons and the State - Robert P Weiss Privatization and Penal Politics - Mick Ryan and Tony Ward Reconstructing Policing - Nigel South Differentiation and Contradiction in Post-War Private and Public Policing Electronic Monitoring and House Arrest - Bonnie Berry and Roger Matthews Making the Right Connections The Voluntary Sector¿s Role in a Mixed Economy of Criminal Justice - R I Mawby Juvenile Justice and the Voluntary Sector - Mike Nellis Private Prisons and Penal Purpose - Max Taylor and Ken Pease

Product details

• Authors: Roger Matthews, Roger Anthony Matthews
• Assisted by: Roger Matthews (Editor), Roger Anthony Matthews (Editor), Matthews Roger (Editor)
• Publisher: Sage Publications Ltd
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 07.11.1989
• EAN: 9780803982406
• ISBN: 978-0-8039-8240-6
• No. of pages: 208
• Series: Sage Contemporary Criminology; Sage Contemporary Criminology Series; SAGE Contemporary Criminology series; Sage Contemporary Criminology
• Subjects: Guides > Law, job, finance > Family law; Social sciences, law, business > Law > Criminal law, criminal procedural law, criminology; Law, LAW / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Criminology, Crime and criminology, Crime & criminology, Criminology;Criminal Law