Leading academics assess the causes and impacts of privatisation and marketisation across the criminal justice system in this illuminating and accessible overview.
With case studies and economic, sociological and criminological perspectives, they review privatisation and outsourcing in prison, probation and rehabilitation services, scope the paradigmatic shift in the roles of public, private and voluntary sectors and consider future reforms to policy.

Contributions by: Del Roy Fletcher, Steve Tombs, Gerry Czerniawski, Victoria Canning, Monish Bhatia, Mike Nellis, Rob Macmillan, Kevin Wong, Maureen Mansfield, Vickie Cooper, Kate Williams, Mike Maguire, Gisella Hanley Santos, Daniel Gilling, Tim Auburn, Jill Annison, Amy Ludlow, Joanna Hargreaves, Ed Johnston, Tom Smith, Randy Lippert, Kevin Walby, Adam White, Roxanna Dehaghani, Katharina Swirak, Richard Sparks, James Gacek, Chris Fox