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Record Nr.

UNINA9910808821103321

Autore

Hamerton Christopher

Titolo

Privatising criminal justice : history, neoliberal penalty and the commodification of crime / / Christopher Hamerton and Sue Hobbs

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London, England ; ; New York, New York : , : Routledge, , [2022]

©2022

ISBN

1-315-70981-3

1-317-48707-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (317 pages)

Disciplina

364

Soggetti

Privatization

Private prisons

Police, Private

Criminal justice, Administration of

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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.