Criminal Justice Privatisation in Contemporary Context: Politics, Risk, and Globalisation
Criminal Justice Privatisation in Contemporary Context: Politics, Risk, and Globalisation
Following on from a socio-historical overview to site the subject, this evaluative review critically examines privatisation as international public policy, with an evaluation of contemporary criminal justice practice, and the position of criminological theory - the majority of which stands in opposition. Central to this longstanding opposition is the ideology of positive externality; that fundamental public services, such as education, healthcare, defence, and criminal justice, should be beyond the reach of party politics, and remain in the hands of the state to ensure access and objectivity. Here, it is argued that the unabated increase in the privatisation of social services over the past forty years is identified as the catalyst for decline in terms of the state’s responsibility to assist justice and act in the public interest.
Criminal Justice, Criminal Justice System, Criminal Justice Process, Privatisation, Private Security, Globalisation, Neoliberalism, Public Services, Private Provision, Politics, Policy, Thatcherism, New Labour, Coalition, Austerity, Risk, Responsibilisation
Hamerton, Christopher
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6 June 2014
Hamerton, Christopher
49e79eba-521a-4bea-ae10-af7f2f852210
Hamerton, Christopher
(2014)
Criminal Justice Privatisation in Contemporary Context: Politics, Risk, and Globalisation.
Abstract
Following on from a socio-historical overview to site the subject, this evaluative review critically examines privatisation as international public policy, with an evaluation of contemporary criminal justice practice, and the position of criminological theory - the majority of which stands in opposition. Central to this longstanding opposition is the ideology of positive externality; that fundamental public services, such as education, healthcare, defence, and criminal justice, should be beyond the reach of party politics, and remain in the hands of the state to ensure access and objectivity. Here, it is argued that the unabated increase in the privatisation of social services over the past forty years is identified as the catalyst for decline in terms of the state’s responsibility to assist justice and act in the public interest.
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Published date: 6 June 2014
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Criminal Justice, Criminal Justice System, Criminal Justice Process, Privatisation, Private Security, Globalisation, Neoliberalism, Public Services, Private Provision, Politics, Policy, Thatcherism, New Labour, Coalition, Austerity, Risk, Responsibilisation
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