The Private Sector and Criminal Justice

The Private Sector and Criminal Justice is an anthology edited by Anthea Hucklesby and Stuart Lister that examines the relationship between commercial enterprise and statutory justice administration. The volume explores how the growth of public sector outsourcing has produced an increasingly pluralised and marketised landscape across diverse jurisdictions.

Contributions assess operational developments across institutional and community contexts, with coverage spanning policing, prisons, the private security sector, probation, community sanctions, and electronic monitoring.

By addressing normative, ideological, and ethical debates alongside empirical assessments of justice agencies, the collection provides a resource for students, scholars, and criminal justice practitioners.