Privatising justice : the security industry, war and crime control /

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Author / Creator:Fitzgibbon, Wendy, author.
Imprint:London : Pluto Press, 2020.
©2020
Description:1 online resource (211 pages)
Language:English
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Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/13584927
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Other authors / contributors:Lea, John, author.
ISBN:9781786801661
1786801663
9781786801678
1786801671
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9780745399256
9780745399232
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Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Wendy Fitzgibbon is a Reader in Criminology at the University of Leicester. She previously worked as a probation officer. She is the author of Pre-emptive Criminalisation: Risk Control And Alternative Futures (NAPO 2004) and Probation and Social Work on Trial (Palgrave, 2011). John Lea is a Visiting Professor at Goldsmiths College, University of London. He is the author of several books, including What Is To Be Done About Law and Order? (Pluto, 1993) and Crime and Modernity (Sage, 2002).
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Summary:Privatising Justice takes a broad historical view of the role of the private sector in the British state, from private policing and mercenaries in the eighteenth century to the modern rise of the private security industry in armed conflict, policing and the penal system. The development of the welfare state is seen as central to the decline of what the authors call 'old privatisation'. Its succession by neoliberalism has created the ground for the resurgence of the private sector. The growth of private military, policing and penal systems is located within the broader global changes brought about by neoliberalism and the dystopian future that it portends. The book is a powerful petition for the reversal of the increasing privatisation of the state and the neoliberalism that underlies it.--
Other form:Print version: Fitzgibbon, Wendy. Privatising justice. London : Pluto Press, 2020 9780745399256