As marketisation and privatisation reshape the criminal justice system, this illuminating overview sets out their causes, scale and impacts. With case studies and economic, sociological and criminological perspectives, leading academics consider the evolving roles of public, private and voluntary sectors and possible future reforms.

Leading academics assess the causes and impacts of privatisation and marketisation across the criminal justice system in this illuminating and accessible overview. With case studies and economic, sociological and criminological perspectives, they review privatisation and outsourcing in prison, probation and rehabilitation services, scope the paradigmatic shift in the roles of public, private and voluntary sectors and consider future reforms to policy.