As more areas of government experience budget problems, the search for efficient and cost effective services has intensified. Private sector involvement is unde
With more than one million people behind bars, the United States imprisons a larger share of its population than any other industrialized nation. This has preci
"The era of mass incarceration has been associated with the idea of "law and order," referring to the carceral regime in which politicians exploited public anxi
After an up-to-date overview of the development of private sector involvement in penal practice worldwide, the authors go on to describe in depth the first 18 m
Assesses the state of the debate on the privatization of justice. Key aspects of the arguments are examined and compared, as the authors clarify both the theore