Anthea Hucklesby & Stuart Lister 
The Private Sector and Criminal Justice [PDF ebook] 

This book brings together a collection of essays by leading criminologists to explore the relationship between the private sector and criminal justice. The private sector has become an increasingly important ‘partner’ in contemporary criminal justice with the unprecedented growth of public sector ‘outsourcing’ arrangements. This has resulted in an increasingly pluralised and marketised landscape of contemporary criminal justice. 





This edited collection examines these developments in different jurisdictions as well as in a wide range of criminal justice contexts and sectors including: the private security sector, policing, prisons, probation and community sanctions, and electronic monitoring. In so doing, it addresses fundamental normative, ideological and ethical debates about the role of the private sector within this new and evolving landscape, as well as descriptive and analytical questions about how criminal justice structures, agencies and processes functio
n and with what effect. 

The Private Sector and Criminal Justice is essential reading for scholars and students of criminology, penology, policing, security, criminal justice and organisational and management studies. It is also an invaluable resource for criminal justice practitioners.

Table of Content

Chapter 1. The Private Sector and Criminal Justice; Stuart Lister and Anthea Hucklesby.- Chapter 2. Vanishing Boundaries of Control; Robert Weiss.- Chapter 3. Just Another Industry?; Adam White.- Chapter 4. Privatisation of Police; Rick Sarre and Tim Prenzler.- Chapter 5. “The Real Private Police” ; Mark Button and Alison Wakefield.- Chapter 6. Quality, Professionalism, and the Distribution of Power in Public and Private Sector Prisons; Ben Crewe and Alison Liebling.- Chapter 7. Competing to Control in the Community; Jane Dominey and Loraine Gelsthorpe.- Chapter 8. A Complicated Business; Anthea Hucklesby.- Chapter 9. “The Treasure Island of the EM Market”; Mike Nellis.

About the author

Anthea Hucklesby is Professor of Criminal Justice at the Centre for Criminal Justice Studies in the School of Law at the University of Leeds, UK, and Pro-Dean for Research and Innovation.




Stuart Lister is Senior Lecturer in Criminal Justice at the Centre for Criminal Justice Studies in the School of Law, University of Leeds, UK, where he teaches and researches in the fields of criminal justice, policing and security.