Changing of the Guards

Private Influences, Privatization, and Criminal Justice in Canada

Edited by Alex Luscombe, Kevin Walby, and Derek Silva
Categories: Social Sciences, Sociology, Criminology, Political Science, Law & Legal Studies, Law & Society
Publisher: UBC Press
Hardcover : 9780774866842, 290 pages, June 2022
Paperback : 9780774866859, 290 pages, January 2023
Ebook (PDF) : 9780774866866, 290 pages, June 2022
Ebook (EPUB) : 9780774866873, 290 pages, June 2022

Table of contents

Foreword: Privatization of Criminal Justice: Emotional, Intellectual, and Political Responses / Adam White

Introduction: Canadian Perspectives on Private Influences and Privatization in Criminal Justice / Alex Luscombe, Kevin Walby, and Derek Silva

Part 1: Private Provision and Purchase of Security

1 Police, Private Security, and Institutional Isomorphism / Massimiliano Mulone

2 Private Policing of Images in Canada / Steven Kohm

3 Postsecondary Security in the Canadian Context / Erin Gibbs Van Brunschot

Part 2: Private Actors in City Spaces and Surveillance

4 Policing Canadian Smart Cities: Technology, Race, and Private Influence in Canadian Law Enforcement / Jamie Duncan and Daniella Barreto

5 Platforms and Privatizing Lines: Business Improvement Areas, Municipal Apps, and the Marketization of Public Service / Debra Mackinnon

Part 3: Private Influences and Privatization in Courts, Prisons, and Jails

6 Private Risk Assessment Instruments and Artificial Intelligence in Canada’s Criminal Justice System / Nicholas Pope and Rebecca Jaremko Bromwich

7 The Implications of Food Privatization in Jails: A Case Study of the Ottawa-Carleton Detention Centre / Kaitlin MacKenzie

8 Shape Shifting: The Penal Voluntary Sector and the Governance of Domestic Violence / Rashmee Singh

Part 4: Private Actors in National Security and Border Control

9 Where Public Meets Private: Evidence of an Emerging “Industrial-Espionage Complex” in Canada / Alex Luscombe

10 The Role of Privatization in Canada’s Immigration Detention Centres / Jona Zyfi and Audrey Macklin

Postscript: Privatization Cultures and the Racial Order: A Dispatch from the United States / Torin Monahan

Index

Description

Although service outsourcing has spread throughout Canada’s prisons and jails, into its police, courts, and national security institutions, and along the border in recent decades, the expanding scope and pace of corporate involvement in criminal justice functions has not yet been closely investigated. Changing of the Guards provides a detailed assessment of privatization and private influence across the twenty-first-century Canadian criminal justice system. It illuminates the many consequences of public–private arrangements for law and policy, transparency, accountability, the administration of justice, equity, and the public. This trenchant analysis raises issues that are relevant in Canada and abroad.