Description
Book SynopsisA powerful petition against the privatisation of the criminal justice system.
Trade Review'Privatising Justice is a compelling, and often disturbing, account of the shifting boundaries between state and private coercion. Historically grounded and theoretically informed, this book is a thought-provoking examination of emergent forms of public-private power and where they may be headed'
-- Dean Wilson, co-author of 'Pre-crime: Pre-emption, Precaution and the Future'
'In this timely text, Wendy Fitzgibbon and John Lea provide a salutary warning of a potentially dystopian future in which the rule of law is ultimately subservient to, and shaped by, the neoliberal project of expanding the economic domination of the powerful'
-- Lawrence Burke, co-author of 'Reimagining Rehabilitation Beyond the Individual'
'Privatising Justice is a compelling, and often disturbing, account of the shifting boundaries between state and private coercion. Historically grounded and theoretically informed, this book is a thought-provoking examination of emergent forms of public-private power and where they may be headed'
-- Dean Wilson, co-author of 'Pre-crime: Pre-emption, Precaution and the Future'
'This ground-breaking analysis offers a highly readable and thought provoking understanding of the complex interplay between the state, the security industries and the military estate through the lens of privatisation'
-- Sandra Walklate, author of 'Gender, Crime and Criminal Justice'
'The privatisation of justice is one of the riskiest developments of the recent era, yet it is also among the most misunderstood. As such, Fitzgibbon and Lea's rigorous analysis could not be more welcome. It is essential, if at times chilling, reading'
-- Shadd Maruna, author of 'Making Good: How Ex-Convicts Reform and Rebuild Their Lives'
Table of ContentsAcknowledgements
Introduction
1. Old Privatisation
2. The Consolidation of State Power and Legitimacy
3. The Re-emergence of Private War
4. Private Security and Policing
5. The Private Sector in the Penal System
6. Towards a Private State?
References
Index
