Privatising Punishment in Europe?

Bringing together key scholars in criminology and penology from across Europe and beyond, this book maps and describes trends of privatising punishment throughout Europe, paying attention both to prisons and community sanctions.

List of contents

1.Privatising punishment in Europe? An agenda for research and policy, Tom Daems and Tom Vander Beken 2.Privatizing criminal justice: An historical analysis of entrepreneurship and innovation, Malcolm M. Feeley 3.Privatization of punishment in Poland, Krzysztof Krajewski 4.Privatization of punishment in Belgium, Danique Gudders and Tom Daems 5. Privatising probation in England and Wales: Manufacturing a crisis to create a market? Lol Burke 6. French probation and prisoner resettlement: Involuntary 'privatisation' and corporatism, Martine Herzog-Evans 7. Electronically monitoring offenders as 'coercive connectivity': Commerce and penality in surveillance capitalism, Mike Nellis 8.Uneven business: Privatization of immigration detention in Europe, Michael Flynn, Matthew B. Flynn and Eryn Wagnon 9.What is lost when punishment is privatized? Lucia Zedner

About the author

Tom Daems is Associate Professor at the Leuven Institute of Criminology (LINC), KU Leuven, Belgium.
Tom Vander Beken is Professor of Criminal Law and Criminology at the Institute for International Research on Criminal Policy, Ghent University, Belgium.

Summary

Bringing together key scholars in criminology and penology from across Europe and beyond, this book maps and describes trends of privatising punishment throughout Europe, paying attention both to prisons and community sanctions.

Product details

• Authors: Tom (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven Daems, Tom Vander Beken Daems
• Assisted by: Tom Daems (Editor), Tom (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven Daems (Editor), Daems Tom (Editor), Tom Vander Beken (Editor), Tom (University of Ghent Vander Beken (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.08.2019
• EAN: 9780367365240
• ISBN: 978-0-367-36524-0
• No. of pages: 200
• Series: Routledge Frontiers of Criminal Justice
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Law > Criminal law, criminal procedural law, criminology; Europe, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Penology, LAW / Criminal Law / Sentencing, Penology and punishment, Penology & punishment, Sentencing & punishment, Sentencing and punishment