Privatizing the Police-State

Privatizing the Police-State
Author: M. Los
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Total Pages: 270
Release: 2000-12-01
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9780312231507

This is the first book that documents and analyses the paramount role of secret services in the decomposition of the communist system and the conversion of its elites into new capitalists. The surge of civil society in 1980s Poland prompted a parallel expansion of the police-state apparatus. The book traces the subsequent reconstruction and privatization of social, political and material resources of the police-state and shows how these covert operations shaped other, more visible aspects of the East/Central European transformation. A Note from the Authors: Since the publication of this book, the events in Poland and elsewhere have demonstrated the extraordinary influence and longevity of the power networks spawned by the communist police state apparatus and its eventual privatization. There is new evidence uncovered almost daily, whose interpretation would not be feasible without the conceptual and historical framework elaborated first in this book.

Privatizing the Police-State

Privatizing the Police-State
Author: M. Los
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 285
Release: 2016-01-22
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0230511694

This is the first book that documents and analyses the paramount role of secret services in the decomposition of the communist system and the conversion of its elites into new capitalists. The surge of civil society in 1980s Poland prompted a parallel expansion of the police-state apparatus. The book traces the subsequent reconstruction and privatization of social, political and material resources of the police-state and shows how these covert operations shaped other, more visible aspects of the East/Central European transformation. A Note from the Authors: Since the publication of this book, the events in Poland and elsewhere have demonstrated the extraordinary influence and longevity of the power networks spawned by the communist police state apparatus and its eventual privatization. There is new evidence uncovered almost daily, whose interpretation would not be feasible without the conceptual and historical framework elaborated first in this book.

The Privatization of Policing

The Privatization of Policing
Author: Brian Forst
Publisher: Georgetown University Press
Total Pages: 177
Release: 1999
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 0878407359

In this critique of privatization, Manning focuses on issues of free market theory and management practices such as total quality management that he believes are harmful to the traditional police mandate to control crime. He questions the appropriateness of strategies that emphasize service to consumers. For Forst, the free market paradigm and economic incentives do not carry the same stigma. He argues that neither public nor private policing should have a monopoly on law enforcement activities, and he predicts an even more varied mix of public and private police activities than are currently available. Following the two main sections of the book, each author assesses the other's contribution, reflecting on not just their points of departure but also on the areas in which they agree.

Privatising Justice

Privatising Justice
Author: Wendy Fitzgibbon
Publisher: Pluto Press (UK)
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2020
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9780745399256

A powerful petition against the privatisation of the criminal justice system.

Private Policing

Private Policing
Author: Mark Button
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 177
Release: 2002
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1903240530

Private Policing examines the origins of private policing, the growing literature that has sought to explain its growth, and ways in which it has been defined and classified.

The Privatization of Police in America

The Privatization of Police in America
Author: James F. Pastor
Publisher: McFarland
Total Pages: 221
Release: 2015-09-17
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0786481420

Today the private security industry employs approximately 1.5 million people and spends over $52 billion annually. In contrast, public police forces employ approximately 600,000 people and spend $30 billion annually. Private policing promises to be a big part of the response to today's increased security concerns, as citizens realize that security is much more than the presence of guards and the perception of safety. This book addresses the impact and implications of private policing on public streets, and begins with a look at private policing from conceptual, historical, economic, legal and functional perspectives. These approaches provide the background for the text, which focuses on a private policing patrol program in a community on the south side of Chicago. The text also demonstrates a number of substantive legal and public policy issues which directly or indirectly relate to the provision of security services; some people see the need for a "dual system" of policing--one for the wealthy and one for the poor--and others see the provision of private security as the primary protective resource in contemporary America. The author also examines how private policing is different from and similar to public policing.

To Serve and Protect

To Serve and Protect
Author: Bruce L. Benson
Publisher: NYU Press
Total Pages: 656
Release: 1998-08-01
Genre: Law
ISBN: 0814709125

Traces the accelerating trend towards privatization in the criminal justice system In contrast to government's predominant role in criminal justice today, for many centuries crime control was almost entirely private and community-based. Government police forces, prosecutors, courts, and prisons are all recent historical developments–results of a political and bureaucratic social experiment which, Bruce Benson argues, neither protects the innocent nor dispenses justice. In this comprehensive and timely book, Benson analyzes the accelerating trend toward privatization in the criminal justice system. In so doing, To Serve and Protect challenges and transcends both liberal and conservative policies that have supported government's pervasive role. With lucidity and rigor, he examines the gamut of private-sector input to criminal justice–from private-sector outsourcing of prisons and corrections, security, arbitration to full "private justice" such as business and community-imposed sanctions and citizen crime prevention. Searching for the most cost-effective methods of reducing crime and protecting civil liberties, Benson weighs the benefits and liabilities of various levels of privatization, offering correctives for the current gridlock that will make criminal justice truly accountable to the citizenry and will simultaneously result in reductions in the unchecked power of government.

Armies Without States

Armies Without States
Author: Robert Mandel
Publisher: Lynne Rienner Publishers
Total Pages: 194
Release: 2002
Genre: Internal security
ISBN: 9781588260666

The book concludes with an assessment of the complexities surrounding responses to security privatization - and an exploration of when, and whether, it should be promoted rather than prevented."--BOOK JACKET.

Marketisation and Privatisation in Criminal Justice

Marketisation and Privatisation in Criminal Justice
Author: Albertson, Kevin
Publisher: Policy Press
Total Pages: 358
Release: 2020-07-03
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1447345703

This collection offers a comprehensive review of the origins, scale and breadth of the privatisation and marketisation revolution across the criminal justice system. Leading academics and researchers assess the consequences of market-driven criminal justice in a wide range of contexts, from prison and probation to policing, migrant detention, rehabilitation and community programmes. Using economic, sociological and criminological perspectives, illuminated by accessible case studies, they consider the shifting roles and interactions of the public, private and voluntary sectors. As privatisation, outsourcing and the impact of market cultures spread further across the system, the authors look ahead to future developments and signpost the way to reform in a ‘post-market’ criminal justice sphere.

Outsourcing Sovereignty

Outsourcing Sovereignty
Author: Paul R. Verkuil
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 248
Release: 2007-12-19
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 0511346360

Reliance on the private military industry and the privatization of public functions has left our government less able to govern effectively. When decisions that should have been taken by government officials are delegated (wholly or in part) to private contractors without appropriate oversight, the public interest is jeopardized. Books on private military have described the problem well, but they have not offered prescriptions or solutions this book does.