| Privatising Criminal Justice: History, Neoliberal Penality and the Commodification of Crime Subjects: Law; Politics & International Relations; Social Sciences; Criminology - Law; Criminology and Criminal Justice; Public Administration & Management; Sociology & Social Policy; Public Policy; Social Policy; Criminal Justice; Police; Probation; Prisons; Criminology and Law; Crime Control - Criminology; Privatising Criminal Justice explores the social, cultural and political context of privatisation in the criminal justice sector. In recent years, the criminal justice sector has made various strategic partnerships with the private sector, exemplified by initiatives within the police, the prison system and offender services. This has seen unprecedented growth in the past 30 years and a veritable explosion under the tenure of the coalition government in the UK. 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. |