Penal politics, the state, civil society and the market: examining the origin, scale and breadth of privatisation across the criminal justice systems in Belgium and France. Ghent University
Over the past decades, neo-liberal ‘minimal state’ governments have increasingly looked towards private enterprise and market-oriented penal reforms for solutions to a wide range of criminal justice issues. These developments have attracted much scholarly attention in the Anglosphere. However, so far few comprehensive criminological studies have empirically and theoretically addressed the more recent and undeniable drive towards privatisation ...