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Privatization in criminal justice : past, present, and future / [edited by] David Shichor, Michael J. Gilbert.

Title
Privatization in criminal justice : past, present, and future / [edited by] David Shichor, Michael J. Gilbert.
Publication
Cincinnati, OH : Anderson Pub., c2001.

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Additional Authors
  • Shichor, David.
  • Gilbert, Michael J., 1947-
Description
xiii, 376 p. : ill.; 26 cm.
Summary
Topics covered include policing and the private security, private adjudication, public and private substance abuse programs in corrections, jail privatization, case studies in Frio County, Prison Realty Trust.
Subject
  • Prisons > United States
  • Privatization > United States
  • Corrections > Contracting out > United States
  • Prisons > United States > Case studies
  • Privatization > United States > Case studies
  • Corrections > Contracting out > United States > Case studies
Genre/Form
Case studies
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. 309-352) and index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
The history of privatization in criminal justice / Beverly A. Smith & Frank T. Morn -- The criminal justice policy-making arena and privatization : subgovernment in flux? / Barbara Ann Stolz -- How much is too much privatization in criminal justice? / Michael J. Gilbert -- Policing and the private security option : functional transparency, re-privatization, and implications in law / James D. Calder -- Rent-a-judge and hide-a-crime : the dark potential of private adjudication / Steve Russell -- Public and private substance abuse programs in corrections / Dale K. Sechrest & Matthew A. Robby -- Jail privatization : the next frontier / Richard G. Kiekbusch -- Not a true partner : local politics and jail privatization in Frio County / Michael J. Gilbert -- The Corrections Corporation of America aka the Prison Reality Trust, Inc. / Alan Mobley & Gilbert Geis -- Public money, private interests : the grassroots battle against CCA in Tennessee / Michael A. Hallett & J. Frank Lee -- The right to profit : promoting economic gain in the name of public interest / Steven Jay Cuvelier & Dennis W. Potts -- Private adult prisons : what do we really know and why don't we know more? / Scott D. Camp & Gerald G. Gaes.
ISBN
1583605002 (pbk.)
LCCN
^^^00036354^
OCLC
  • 43811127
  • SCSB-10389116
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library