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Privatizing the United States justice system : police, adjudication, and corrections services from the private sector / edited by Gary W. Bowman, Simon Hakim, Paul Seidenstat ; with a foreword by James K. Stewart.
- Title
- Privatizing the United States justice system : police, adjudication, and corrections services from the private sector / edited by Gary W. Bowman, Simon Hakim, Paul Seidenstat ; with a foreword by James K. Stewart.
- Publication
- Jefferson, N.C. : McFarland & Co., c1992.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Use in library | HV 9950 .P75 1992 | Off-site |
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- Description
- x, 342 p. : ill.; 24 cm.
- Alternative Title
- Privatizing the U.S. justice system.
- Subject
- Note
- Spine title: Privatizing the U.S. justice system.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Foreword : the justice system and the private sector : time for an expanded partnership / James K. Stewart -- Three centuries of criminal justice privatization in the United States / Robert D. McCrie -- Can police services be privatized? / Philip E. Fixler, Jr., and Robert W. Poole, Jr. -- Private security and controlling crime / Edwin W. Zedlewski -- Community policing, problem-oriented policing, police-citizen coproduction of public safety, and the privatization of crime control / Ronald L. Boostrom and Corina A. Draper -- Direct and indirect benefits of intergovernmental contracting for police services / Stephen L. Mehay and Rodolfo A. Gonzalez -- An empirical analysis of contracting out local government services / Dolores Tremewan Martin and Robert M. Stein.
- Police privatization ventures as strategies to maintain and enhance public safety / Roland C. Dart, III -- Contracting out : the most viable solution / Mike Freeman -- Privatization in criminal justice : one perspective in southern California / Jerry A. Usher -- A police chief's view of privatization of the criminal justice system / Thomas R. Windham -- The Starrett Protective Service : private policing in an urban community / William F. Walsh, Edwin J. Donovan, and James F. McNicholas -- Private sector liaison with police / Michael G. Shanahan -- The reasons for the inefficient U.S. justice system and suggested remedies / Richard Neely -- Privatization of justice / Larry Ray -- Market failure versus government failure in the production of adjudication / Bruce L. Benson -- Private prosecution / Tim Valentine -- Private dispute resolution / Michael S. Gillie.
- Mediators : legal and practical profiles / David U. Strawn -- Private corrections / Samuel Jan Brakel -- The privatization of jails : a management perspective / Richard Kiekbusch -- The public sector's responsibilities in privatizing court related and correctional services / Robert J. Gemignani -- The economics of privatizing criminal justice facilities / Robert S. Guzek -- Privatization of corrections : two Canadian perspectives / Daniel Hawe, Howard Sapers, and Paulette Doyle -- Barriers to entry of private-sector industry into a prison environment / George D. Bronson [and others] -- More warehouses, or factories with fences? / Warren E. Burger.
- ISBN
- 0899507042 (lib. bdg. : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- ^^^91051002^
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- Harvard Library