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Author Hamerton, Christopher

Title Privatising Criminal Justice History, Neoliberal Penality and the Commodification of Crime
Published Milton : Taylor & Francis Group, 2019

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Description 1 online resource (317 p.)
Contents Cover -- Endorsement -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- About the authors -- Acknowledgements -- List of abbreviations -- 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 to fix it? -- Index
Notes Description based upon print version of record
Subject Privatization.
Private prisons.
Police, Private.
Criminal justice, Administration of.
Criminal justice, Administration of
Police, Private
Private prisons
Privatization
Form Electronic book
Author Hobbs, Sue
ISBN 9781317487074
1317487079