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Privatizing the United States Justice System

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Police, Adjudication, and Corrections Services from the Private Sector

Gary W. Bowman, Simon Hakim, and Paul Seidenstat, eds.

Features twenty-eight original essays, reflecting expert opinions in three areas: the public and private provision of police functions with an evaluation of private police services; the supply of private judiciary services in civil cases; and the privatization of correctional services, from supplies to complete private management. Also included are two reprinted articles, by Warren Burger, former Chief Justice of the United States, and Richard Nealy, Chief Justice of the West Virginia Supreme Court.

1992. 352 pp. $49.95, library binding.
ISBN 0-89950-704-2.
McFarland & Co., Publishers.

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Contents

Forward
The Justice System and the Private Sector: Time for an Expanded Partnership
James K. Stewart

1. Introduction
Gary W. Bowman, Simon Hakim, and Paul Seidenstat

2. Three Centuries of Criminal Justice Privatization in the United States
Robert D. McCrie

3. Can Police Services Be Privatized?
Philip E. Fixler, Jr., and Robert W. Poole, Jr.

4. Private Security and Controlling Crime
Edwin W. Zedlewski

5. Community Policing, Problem-Oriented Policing, Police-Citizen Coproduction of Public Safety, and the Privatization of Crime Control
Ronald L. Boostrom and Corina A. Draper

6. Direct and Indirect Benefits of Intergovernmental Contracting for Police Services
Stephen L. Mehay and Rodolfo A. Gonzalez

7. An Empirical Analysis of Contracting out Local Government Services
Dolores Tremewan Martin and Robert M. Stein

8. Police Privatization Ventures as Startegies to Maintain and Enhance Public Safety
Roland C. Dart, III

9. Contracting Out: The Most Viable Solution
Mike Freeman

10. Privatization in Criminal Justice: One Perspective in Southern California
Jerry A. Usher

11. A Police Shief's View of Privatization of the Criminal Justice System
Thomas R. Windham

12. The Starrett Protective Service: Private Policing in an Urban Community
William F. Walsh, Edwin J. Donovan, and James F. McNicholas

13. Private Sector Liaison with Police
Michael G. Shanahan

14. The Reasons for the Inefficient U.S. Justice System and Suggested Remedies
Richard Neely

15. Privatization of Justice
Larry Ray

16. Market Failure Versus Government Failure in the Production of Adjudication
Bruce L. Benson

17. Private Prosecution
Tim Valentine

18. Private Dispute Resolution
Michael S. Gillie

19. Mediators: Legal and Practical Profiles
David U. Strawn

20. Private Corrections
Samuel Jan Brakel

21. The Privatization of Jails: A Management Perspective
Richard Kiekbusch

22. The Public Sector's Responsibilities in Privatizing Court Related and Correctional Services
Robert J. Gemignani

23. The Economics of Privatizing Criminal Justice Facilities
Robert S. Guzek

24. Privatization of Corrections: Two Canadian Perspectives
Daniel Hawe, Howard Sapers, and Paulette Doyle

25. Barriers to Entry of Private-Sector Industry into a Prison Environment
George D. Bronson, Claire S. Bronson, Michael J. Wynne, and Richard F. Olson

26. More Warehouses, or Factories with Fences?
Warren E. Burger

Index

Bruce L. Benson: Professor of economics at Florida State University. Research fellow of Pacific Research Institute

Ronald L. Boostrom: Director of the Criminal Justice Administration Program and professor of public administration and urban studies at San Diego State Universitv, CA

Gary W. Bowman: Associate professor of economics at Temple University, with research in applications of microeconomics including public and managerial decisions and policy

Samuel Jan Brakel: Professor of law and director of research of the Health Law Institute, DePaul University, Chicago. Senior Consultant, Isaac Ray Center, Chicago

Claire S. Bronson: Associate professor of finance, Western New England College, Springfield, MA

George D. Bronson: Warden, Carl Robinson Correctional Institute, Enfield, CT

Warren E. Burger: Chief justice of the United States (retired)

Roland C. Dart, III: Professor of criminal justice, California State University, Sacramento

Edwin J. Donovan: Assistant professor, Administration of Justice Department at Pennsvlvania State University, University Park

Paulette Doyle: Office of Solicitor General, Alberta, Canada

Corina A. Draper: Graduate research assistant in the School of Public Administration and Urban Studies, San Diego State University, CA, and research associate for the San Diego Association of Governments

Philip E. Fixler, Jr.: (Deceased) Former director of local government at the Reason Foundation, Santa Monica, CA

Mike Freeman: Administrative assistant to the city manager, City of Thornton, CO, and former assistant director of the International City Management Association's FutureVisions Consortium

Robert J. Gemignani: President and founder of the National Office for Social Responsibility, Alexandria, VA, and former U.S. commissioner of youth development

Michael S. Gillie: Attorney and founder and executive director of United States Arbitration and Mediation, with 48 offices in the United States, Canada and Europe

Rodolfo A. Gonzalez: Professor of economics, California State University, San Jose

Robert S. Guzek: Vice president of Hill, a Willingboro, NJ, consulting firm

Simon Hakim: Professor of economics at Temple University. His work centers on analysis of criminal behavior, police operations, and privatization of justice institutions

Daniel Hawe: Director of intergovernmental affairs, Correctional Service, Canada

Richard G. Kiekbusch: Superintendent, Prince Wifliam-Manassas Regional Adult Detention Center, VA

Robert D. McCrie: Assistant professor, Department of Law and Police Science, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, City University of New York

James F. McNicholas: Director of security, Starrett Protective Service, Brooklyn, NY

Dolores Tremewan Martin: White House Office of Policy Development

Stephen L. Mehay: Professor of economics, U.S. Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, CA

Richard Neely: Chief justice, Supreme Court of Appeals, West Virginia

Richard F. Olson: Assistant superintendent of schools, Unified School District #I, Connecticut Department of Corrections, Hartford

Robert W. Poole, Jr.: President of Reason Foundation, Santa Monica, CA, and editor of Reason magazine; White House consultant on privatization

Larry Ray: Executive director of the American Bar Association Standing Committee on Dispute Resolution

Howard Sapers: Provincial executive director, John Howard Society of Alberta, Canada

Paul Seidenstat: Associate professor of economics and director of the graduate program at Temple University. His research is in government finance and management and urban and environmental economics

Michael G. Shanahan: Chief of police, University of Washington, Seattle

Robert M. Stein: Professor of political science, Rice University, Houston, TX

James K. Stewart: Principal with Booz, Allen and Hamilton, Washington, DC, and former director of National Institute of Justice

David U. Strawn: President of Dispute Management, Orlando, FL

Jerry A. Usher: Chairman of the board, Golden West K-9, Pacoima, CA

Tim Valentine: U.S. congressman, Second District of North Carolina

William F. Walsh: Assistant professor, Administration of Justice Department at Pennsylvania State University, Universitv Park

Thomas R. Windham: Chief of police. Fort Worth, TX

Michael J. Wynne: Correctional director of private sector industries, Connecticut Department of Corrections, Hartford

Edwin W. Zedlewski: Scientific adviser to director of National Institute of Justice. Scientific editor of NIJ Reports and consultant to the President's Commission on Organized Crime and the U.S. Sentencing Commission

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