Philip Bean was formerly a probation officer in the Inner London Probation and After Care Service (until 1970) before taking up appointments for the Medical Research Council. He is now Emeritus Professor of Criminology and Criminal Justice at the University of Loughborough. He is the author/editor of over 30 books and of numerous papers in learned journals mainly on mental disorder and crime, and drugs and crime, but also on other matters in criminology namely criminological theory.

• 1.Privatisation in Criminal Justice. An Overview 2.Probation for Profit: Neoliberalism Magical Thinking and Evidence Refusal 3.Electronic Monitoring, Neoliberalism and the Shaping of Community Sanctions 4.Who Needs Experts? The Commercialisation of the Probation Ideal 5.The Gift Relationship: What We Lose When Rehabilitation is Privatised 6.Through the Gate 7.The Role of Payment by Results in Privatising the Probation Service 8.Privatisation of Policing; Objective Reform, Ideological Revolution or Subjective Revenge and Retribution? 9.Private Security and the Privatisation of Criminal Justice 10.Privatisation Marketisation and the Penal Voluntary Sector 11.Contracts, compliance care and control. The experience of privatisation in one probation trust.Contracts compliance care and control: the experience of privatisation in one probation trust.Contracts, Compliance Care and Control: The Experience of Privatisation in One Probation Trust. 12.Does it Work? Does it Pay? 13.Legitimacy in Probation and the Impact of Transforming Rehabilitation 14.What Does Privatisation Mean for Probation Supervision? 15.Privatisation of Criminal Justice in Eastern Europe 16.Privatisation of Criminal Justice in Australia. 17.Correctional Privatisation in the United States.

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