Hamerton, Christopher (2022) The ascendency of the business ideal and the marketisation of offender services. In, Privatising Criminal Justice: History, Neoliberal Penality and the Commodification of Crime. 1st ed. Abingdon. Routledge, pp. 228-255. (doi:10.4324/9781315709819-10).
Abstract
Chapters 10 and 11 are interlinked chapters that address the privatisation of offender management services. In these two chapters, two parallel but inter-related developments are explored. These are the rise of electronic monitoring as the first exclusively private provision of offenders’ services, and its contribution to the slow demise of the Probation Service, culminating in the largest privatisation venture in the criminal justice system. In this chapter the different stages of ‘privatisation by stealth’ (e.g. the introduction of the business ethos into the service, the emergence of command and control–style management by targets and the creation of an internal market), which laid the groundwork for privatisation of 70% of Probation services, are analysed in conjunction with the awarding of the electronic monitoring of offenders to private contractors—a pivotal moment that signalled the ‘eve of destruction’.
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