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Third Sector Involvement in Criminal Justice

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This chapter examines the rise of marketisation in criminal justice and the increasingly important role of third sector organisations in these markets. The authors give a brief history of criminal justice marketisation and the roles in it for various state and non-state entities. They then focus specifically on third sector agencies, defined as non-state, non-private sector bodies such as charities, not-for-profit groups, and voluntary organisations and individuals. This is followed by a survey of the types and extent of third sector involvement in contemporary criminal justice and key current trends. They examine the advantages and disadvantages of this development, before finishing with a brief discussion of implications for the future of criminal justice.

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  1. Griffith Criminology Institute, Brisbane, Australia

    Janet Ransley

  2. School of Social Science, University of Queensland, Queensland, Australia

    Lorraine Mazerolle

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  1. Auckland University of Technology, Auckland, New Zealand

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Ransley, J., Mazerolle, L. (2017). Third Sector Involvement in Criminal Justice. In: Deckert, A., Sarre, R. (eds) The Palgrave Handbook of Australian and New Zealand Criminology, Crime and Justice. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-55747-2_32

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