Privatizing Criminal Justice Jill Viglione singling out the essential functions

singling out the essential functions that a modern

finding and using suitable premises

Professor Jonathan Parker is Deputy Dean for Research and Enterprise and Director of the Centre for Social Work and Social Policy at Bournemouth University

this book shows how more sophisticated research in public management can help improve government performance

Privatizing Criminal Justice Jill Viglione singling out the essential functionsThe contributors to this book assess the state of the debate on the privatization of justice. Key aspects of the arguments are examined and compared, as the authors clarify both the theoretical issues and the practical problems involved in the privatization of justice. The nature of the state and its relation to a monopoly of violence constitutes the main theoretical issue. Other debates which are covered include the existing role of private security