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Privatising justice : the security industry, war and crime control / Wendy Fitzgibbon and John Lea.
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Fitzgibbon, Wendy
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Book
Language
English
Published/Created
London : Pluto Press, 2020.
©2020
Description
211 pages ; 21 cm
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HV8291.G7 F58 2020
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Private security services
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Great Britain
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Criminal justice, Administration of
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Great Britain
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Crime prevention
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Great Britain
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Author
Lea, John
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Biographical/Historical note
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).
Summary note
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.-- Provided by publisher.
Bibliographic references
Includes bibliographical references (pages [171]-198) and index.
Contents
Introduction
Old privatisation
The consolidation of state power and legitimacy
The re-emergence of private war
Private security and policing
The private sector in the penal system
Towards a private state?
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ISBN
9780745399256 ((hardback))
0745399258 ((hardback))
9780745399232 ((paperback))
0745399231 ((paperback))
LCCN
2023394352
OCLC
979567657
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