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Private Influences, Privatization, and Criminal Justice in Canada 
Edited by Alex Luscombe, Derek Silva, and Kevin Walby
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Title: Private Influences, Privatization, and Criminal Justice in Canada
Editors: Alex Luscombe (University of Toronto), Derek Silva (King’s University College), Kevin Walby (University of Winnipeg)
Chapter Due Date (for authors): July 31st, 2019
Chapter Length (for authors): 7,500 to 8,000 words inclusive of references

Summary: Although privatization is not new, in recent decades we have witnessed an increasing return to the involvement of private, corporate actors in and the privatization of core criminal justice functions in Canada. This includes not just private security guarding, a well-documented trend since at least the 1960s, but other forms of private influence and outsourcing in the courtroom, prisons, security intelligence, and at the border as well. Yet, for the vast literature on private security that now exists in criminology, criminal justice, and sociology, very little research has explored these other areas of the criminal justice system. When one looks specifically at Canada, the academic record is even thinner. Most of the literature on private influence and privatization of criminal justice processes focuses on the United States, Britain, and Australia. Private Influences, Privatization, and Criminal Justice in Canada aims to fill these gaps in the literature by providing a comprehensive look at some of the major developments around private influence in and privatization of the Canadian criminal justice field today. The chapters in this volume will illuminate the impacts of private influence and privatization on government transparency, accountability, the administration of justice, and public debate.

Description of Sections & Volume Contributors

Introduction: Alex Luscombe, Derek Silva, Kevin Walby

Section I: Private Actors in City Spaces and Surveillance

Chapter 1 Policing the Smart City: Data, Dissent, and the Future of Urban Development (Jamie Duncan, Bojan Francuz, and Daniella Barreto, University of Toronto, Concordia University, and Amnesty International)
Chapter 2 The Subtle Privatization of Public Space (Daniel Kudla and Crystal Weston, University of Guelph)
Chapter 3 Who You Gonna Call? Partial Platforms, Partnerships and Calls for Service (Debra MacKinnon, Queen's University)

Section II: Appetites for Private Provision and Purchase of Security

Chapter 4 On Security as a Consumer Good (Massimiliano Mulone, Université de Montréal)
Chapter 5 Private Policing of Images in Canada (Steven Kohm, University of Winnipeg)
Chapter 6 Post-Secondary Security in the Canadian Context (Erin Gibbs Van Brunschot, University of Calgary)
Chapter 7 On Parapolicing and Efforts to Manage "Problem Gambling" in Alberta Casinos (John Manzo, University of Calgary)

Section III: Private Actors in Courts and Law

Chapter 8 Criminal Law and Private Apps: in the Public Interest? (Rebecca Jaremko Bromwich, Carleton University)
Chapter 9 The Consequences of Food Privatization in Ontario Jails: A Case Study of the Ottawa-Carleton Detention Centre (Laura McKendy and Kaitlin MacKenzie, Carleton University and Memorial University)
Chapter 10 Shape Shifting: The Penal Voluntary Sector and the Governance of Domestic Violence (Rashmee Singh, University of Waterloo)

Section IV: Private Actors in the Realm of National Security and Border Politics

Chapter 11 Canada’s Emerging Espionage-Industrial Complex (Alex Luscombe, University of Toronto)
Chapter 12 The Politics of Border Architecture: Public-Private Partnerships in the Planning and Development of the Gordie Howe International Bridge Project (Derek Silva and Benjamin Muller, King's University College)
Chapter 13 The Role of Privatization in Canada’s Immigration Detention Centres (Jona Zyfi and Audrey Macklin, University of Toronto)

Key Readings on Privatization and Criminal Justice
​**please consider citing in your chapter for consistency throughout the volume**


Ayling, J., & Shearing, C. (2008). Taking care of business: Public police as commercial security vendors. Criminology & Criminal Justice, 8(1), 27-50. 
 
Brownlee, J., C. Hurl and K. Walby, eds. (2018). Corporatizing Canada: Making Business Out of Public Service. Brownlee, Jamie, C. Hurl and K. Walby (eds). Toronto: Between the Lines Press.
 
Davis, M., Lundman, E. J., & Martinez R. J. (1991). Private Corporate Justice: Store Police, Shoplifters, and Civil Recovery. Social Problems, 38(3), 395-411. 
 
Dorn, N., & Levi, M. (2007). European private security, corporate investigation and military services: collective security, market regulation and structuring the public sphere. Policing & Society, 17(3), 213-238. 
 
Ericson, R. and A. Doyle. (2003). The Moral Risks of Private Justice: The Case of Insurance Fraud. In R. Ericson and A. Doyle (Eds.). Risk and Morality, 317-63. Toronto: University of Toronto.
 
Fosten, G. K. (2017). Profit-Seeking Motives and Racist Policy in Tennessee’s Criminal Justice System: A Triangular Analysis. Journal of Black Studies, 48(8), 791-815. 
 
Gilsinan, J. F., Millar, J., Seitz, N., Fisher, J., Harshman, E., Islam, M., & Yeager, F. (2008). The Role of Private Sector Organizations in the Control and Policing of Serious Financial Crime and Abuse. Journal of Financial Crime, 15(2), 111-123. 
 
Henry, S. (2015). Private Justice: Towards Integrated Theorising in the Sociology of Law. London: Routledge. 
 
Hucklesby, A., & Lister, S. (eds.). (2017). The Private Sector and Criminal Justice. London: Palgrave. 
 
Joh, E. (2004). The Paradox of Private Policing. Journal of Criminal Law & Criminology, 95(1), 49-131. 
 
Kraska, P. and J. Brent. (2011). Theorizing Criminal Justice. Long Grove: Waveland. 
 
Lofstrand, C. H., Loftus, B., & Loader, I. (2018). Private Security as Moral Drama: a Tale of Two Scandals. Policing and Society, 28(8), 968-984. 
 
Meerts, C. (2013). Corporate Security – Private Justice? (Un)settling Employer-Employee Troubles. Security Journal, 26(3), 264-279. 
 
Meerts, C., & Dorn, N. (2009). Corporate Security and Private Justice: Danger Signs? European Journal of Crime, Criminal Law and Criminal Justice, 17, 97-111. 
 
O’Reilly, C. (2010). The transnational security consultancy industry: A case of state-corporate symbiosis. Theoretical Criminology, 14(2), 183-210.
 
Sarre, R. (2005). Researching private policing: Challenges and agendas for researchers. Security Journal, 18(3), 57-70. 
 
Schneider, S. (2006). Privatizing economic crime enforcement: Exploring the role of private sector investigative agencies in combating money laundering. Policing & Society, 16(3), 285-312. 
 
Shearing, C. D., & Stenning, P. C. (1983). Private security: implications for social control. Social Problems, 30(5), 493-506. 
 
Simmons, R. (2007). Private Criminal Justice. Wake Forest Law Review, 42, 911-990.
 
Stenning, P. C. (2000). Powers and accountability of private police. European Journal on Criminal Policy and Research, 8(3), 325-352.
 
Stenning, P. & Shearing, C. (1979). Private Security and Private Justice. British Journal of Law and Society, 6(2), 261-271. 
 
Stenstrom, A. (2018). The Private Policing of Insurance Claims: Power, Profit and Private Justice. British Journal of Criminology, 58, 478-496. 
 
Tripp, T. & Cobkit, S. (2013). Unexpected Pathways: Criminal Justice Career Options in the Private Sector. Journal of Criminal Justice Education, 24(4), 478-494. 
 
Van Calster, P. J. V. (2011). Privatising Criminal Justice? Shopping in the Netherlands. The Journal of Criminal Law, 75, 204-224. 
 
Van Steden, R., & De Waard, J. (2013). ‘Acting like chameleons’: On the McDonaldization of private security. Security Journal, 26(3), 294-309.
 
Van Steden, R., & Sarre, R. (2007). The Growth of Privatized Policing: Some Cross‐national Data and Comparisons. International Journal of Comparative and Applied Criminal Justice, 31(1), 51-71. 
 
Zedner, L. (2006). Liquid Security: Managing the Market for Crime Control. Criminology & Criminal Justice, 6(3), 267-288.
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