- Title Pages
- List of figures and tables
- List of acronyms
- Notes on contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction Marketisation and privatisation in criminal justice: an overview
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1 Market society utopianism in penal politics -
2 Outcomes-based contracts in the UK public sector -
3 The carceral state and the interpenetration of interests: commercial, governmental and civil society interests in criminal justice -
4 Understanding the privatisation of probation through the lens of Bourdieu’s field theory -
5 The progress of marketisation: the prison and probation experience -
6 The ‘soft power’ of marketisation: the administrative assembling of Irish youth justice work -
7 Police outsourcing and labour force vulnerability -
8 Marketisation or corporatisation? Making sense of private influence in public policing across Canada and the US -
9 Marketisation and competition in criminal legal aid: implications for access to justice -
10 Holding private prisons to account: what role for Controllers as ‘the eyes and ears of the state’? -
11 A flawed revolution? Interrogating the Transforming Rehabilitation changes in England and Wales through the prism of a Community Justice Court -
12 Constructive ambiguity, market imaginaries and the penal voluntary sector in England and Wales -
13 Marketisation of women’s organisations in the criminal justice sector -
14 Surviving the revolution? The voluntary sector under Transforming Rehabilitation in England and Wales -
15 Neo-liberal imaginaries and GPS tracking in England and Wales -
16 Misery as business: how immigration detention became a cash cow in Britain’s borders -
17 Prison education: a Northern European wicked policy problem? -
18 Making local regulation better? Marketisation, privatisation and the erosion of social protection -
19 The ‘fearsome frowning face of the state’ and ex-prisoners: promoting employment or alienation, anger and perpetual punishment? - Conclusion
- Index
Making local regulation better? Marketisation, privatisation and the erosion of social protection
Making local regulation better? Marketisation, privatisation and the erosion of social protection
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- (p.293) 18 Making local regulation better? Marketisation, privatisation and the erosion of social protection
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- Marketisation and Privatisation in Criminal Justice
- Author(s):
Steve Tombs
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- Policy Press
This chapter considers how marketisation, privatisation and deregulation have combined in the UK to produce both a de-democratisation and the erosion of social protection. It does so through an exploration of the enforcement of food safety, pollution control, trading standards and workers’ health and safety law, and, via a focus upon the atrocity at Grenfell Tower in 2017, on fire safety. In particular, I examine enforcement and regulatory policy at Local Authority level under the guise of the Better Regulation initiative and, then, conditions of austerity. These contexts have produced the opportunities for reframed – that is, specifically, privatised and marketised – forms of regulation which prioritise the interests of business over social protection.
Keywords: Enforcement, Food Safety, Local Authority, Health And Safety, Pollution Control, Regulation, Trading Standards, Social Protection
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- Title Pages
- List of figures and tables
- List of acronyms
- Notes on contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction Marketisation and privatisation in criminal justice: an overview
-
1 Market society utopianism in penal politics -
2 Outcomes-based contracts in the UK public sector -
3 The carceral state and the interpenetration of interests: commercial, governmental and civil society interests in criminal justice -
4 Understanding the privatisation of probation through the lens of Bourdieu’s field theory -
5 The progress of marketisation: the prison and probation experience -
6 The ‘soft power’ of marketisation: the administrative assembling of Irish youth justice work -
7 Police outsourcing and labour force vulnerability -
8 Marketisation or corporatisation? Making sense of private influence in public policing across Canada and the US -
9 Marketisation and competition in criminal legal aid: implications for access to justice -
10 Holding private prisons to account: what role for Controllers as ‘the eyes and ears of the state’? -
11 A flawed revolution? Interrogating the Transforming Rehabilitation changes in England and Wales through the prism of a Community Justice Court -
12 Constructive ambiguity, market imaginaries and the penal voluntary sector in England and Wales -
13 Marketisation of women’s organisations in the criminal justice sector -
14 Surviving the revolution? The voluntary sector under Transforming Rehabilitation in England and Wales -
15 Neo-liberal imaginaries and GPS tracking in England and Wales -
16 Misery as business: how immigration detention became a cash cow in Britain’s borders -
17 Prison education: a Northern European wicked policy problem? -
18 Making local regulation better? Marketisation, privatisation and the erosion of social protection -
19 The ‘fearsome frowning face of the state’ and ex-prisoners: promoting employment or alienation, anger and perpetual punishment? - Conclusion
- Index
