To Serve and Protect : : Privatization and Community in Criminal Justice / / Bruce L. Benson.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter New York University Press Archive eBook-Package Pre-2000
• VerfasserIn: Benson, Bruce L.,
• MitwirkendeR: Wolfgang, Marvin E.,
• Place / Publishing House: New York, NY : : New York University Press, , [1998]; ©1998
• Year of Publication: 1998
• Language: English
• Series: Political Economy of Austrian School ; 4
• Physical Description: 1 online resource
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Foreword --; Preface. Why the Timing Might Be Right --; Acknowledgments --; 1. Introduction --; Part I. Private Inputs for Public Crime Control --; 2. Partial Privatization --; 3. Potential Benefits and Pitfalls of Contracting Out for Criminal Justice --; 4. Private Inputs into “Public” Arrest and Prosecution --; Part II. Private Crime Control --; 5. The Level and Scope of Private Production of Crime Prevention and Protection --; 6. Private Justice in America --; 7. The Benefits of Privatization --; 8. Alleged Market Failures in a Privatized System of Criminal Justice --; Part III. Policy Analysis and Recommendations: From a Privatized System of Crime Control to Government Domination, and How to Get Back Again --; 9. Why Is the Public Sector So Involved with Criminal Law Today? --; 10. Restitution in a Rights-Based Approach to Crime Policy --; 11. Encouraging Effective Privatization in Criminal Justice, Part I --; 12. Encouraging Effective Privatization in Criminal Justice, Part II --; Notes --; Bibliography --; Index --; About the Author
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9780814723050; 9783110716924
• DOI: 10.18574/nyu/9780814723050.001.0001
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Bruce L. Benson.

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.