Privatising Punishment in Europe?
In recent times, the question of private sector involvement in public affairs has become framed in altogether new terms. Across Europe, there has been a growth in various forms of public-private cooperation in building and maintaining (new) penal institutions and an increasing presence of private companies offering security services within penal institutions as well as delivering security goods such as electronic monitoring and other equipment to penal authorities. Such developments are part of a wider trend towards privatising and marketising security.
Bringing together key scholars in criminology and penology from across Europe and beyond, this book maps and describes trends of privatising punishment throughout Europe, paying attention both to prisons and to community sanctions. In doing so, it initiates a continent-wide dialogue among academics and key public and private actors on the future of privatisation in Europe. Debates on the privatisation of punishment in Europe are still underdeveloped and this book plays a pioneering and agenda-setting role in developing this dialogue.
Tom Daems is Associate Professor at the Leuven Institute of Criminology (LINC), KU Leuven, Belgium.
Tom Vander Beken is Professor of Criminal Law and Criminology at the Institute for International Research on Criminal Policy, Ghent University, Belgium.
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Contents
TOM DAEMS AND TOM VANDER BEKEN
MALCOLM M. FEELEY
KRZYSZTOF KRAJEWSKI
DANIQUE GUDDERS AND TOM DAEMS
LOL BURKE
MARTINE HERZOG-EVANS
MIKE NELLIS
MICHAEL FLYNN, MATTHEW B. FLYNN AND ERYN WAGNON
LUCIA ZEDNER
Tom Daems is Associate Professor at the Leuven Institute of Criminology (LINC), KU Leuven, Belgium
Tom Vander Beken is Professor of Criminal Law and Criminology at the Institute for International Research on Criminal Policy, Ghent University, Belgium
Lol Burke is a Reader in Criminal Justice at Liverpool John Moores University, UK
Malcolm M. Feeley is Claire Sanders Clements Deans Chair in Law (Boalt Hall) at University of California at Berkeley, USA
Matthew B. Flynn is an Assistant Professor of International Studies and Sociology at Georgia Southern University, USA
Michael Flynn is Executive Director of the Global Detention Project
Danique Gudders is a PhD Candidate at Leuven Institute of Criminology (LINC), KU Leuven, Belgium
Martine Herzog-Evans is a Professor in the Faculty of Law, University of Reims, France
Krzysztof Krajewski is Chair of Criminology at Jagiellonian University, Poland
Mike Nellis is Emeritus Professor of Criminal and Community Justice in the Law School, University of Strathclyde, UK
Eryn Wagnon is an Instructor in the Department of Anthropology and Sociology at Georgia Southern University, USA
Lucia Zedner is Senior Research Fellow, All Souls College and Professor, Faculty of Law at the University of Oxford, and Conjoint Professor, Faculty of Law, UNSW, Sydney
The history of this book goes back to a one-day conference that we organised on 24 November 2016 in Brussels in the beautiful setting of the Royal Flemish Academy of Belgium for Science and the Arts. We are grateful to the Academy for hosting our event and for providing us with logistical and financial support. We also would like to acknowledge the support we received from the Research Foundation Flanders (FWO) and the Faculty of Law of Ghent University in order to make this event possible. At this conference, draft papers of the keynote speakers (Malcolm Feeley, Martine Herzog-Evans, Krzysztof Krajewski, Mike Nellis and Lucia Zedner) were presented and discussed and these were later reworked into chapters for this book. In addition, we decided to include three more chapters on privatization in Belgium (Danique Gudders and Tom Daems), probation in England and Wales (Lol Burke) and immigration detention in Europe (Michael Flynn, Matthew Flynn and Eryn Wagnon) in order to broaden the geographical and thematic scope of the book and we expanded our introductory notes to the conference into a first, full chapter for this volume.
We are grateful to Tom Sutton, editor for criminology at Routledge, and his team, in particular Hannah Catterall, for help and support in preparing and finalizing the manuscript.
Tom Daems wishes to thank Danique Gudders and Yana Magis from the research line Punishment and Control at the Leuven Institute of Criminology (LINC), KU Leuven, for their help with organising the event, and his wife and kids for their patience, impatience and necessary distraction. Tom Vander Beken is grateful to Vincent Eechaudt for his ideas and support to the introductory notes.
