General
This section contains documents which look at the use of competition and contracting in the justice and home affairs sector as a whole. In the UK the recent creation of the National Offender Management Service (NOMS) champions end-to-end offender management and is based around a framework of commissioning services from a combination of public, private and voluntary providers.
Breaking the Cycle: Effective punishment, rehabilitation and sentencing of offenders (PDF) Ministry of Justice (MoJ), 2011 A Green Paper setting out fundamental changes to the criminal justice system. Central to the policy is to free local managers, professionals and volunteers from central control. The system will invite 'the expertise of everyone who can make a contribution, whether they work in the public sector or elsewhere' in a model promoting bottom-up reform. UK
Getting Back on the Straight and Narrow: A Better Criminal Justice System For All (PDF) CBI, 2008 This paper examines the challenges in reducing re-offending faced by UK prisons and probation due to overcrowding and lack of joined-up management. It puts forward recommendations to guide urgently needed reforms through sustainable commissioning-based solutions. ISBN 978-0-85201-678-7 UK
National Commissioning Plan 2007/2008: Commissioning Framework (PDF) National Offender Management Service (NOMS) , 2007 A policy document which sets out strategic intentions for commissioning offender management services, priorities for investment and performance measures. UK
Improving Prison and Probation Services: Public Value Partnerships (PDF) National Offender Management Service (NOMS), 2006 Report on a NOMS programme aimed at improving public protection through the extension of partnership working and contestability. This includes the market testing of community and custody interventions and further competition in the builiding and operation of new prisons. ISBN-10: 1-874726-009-8 UK
NOMS, Contestability and the Process of Technocorrectional Innovation Nellis, Mike, 2006 Ch.5 of 'Reshaping, Probation and Prisons: The New Offender Management Framework', Mike Hough, Rob Allen, Una Padel (eds), Policy Press An appraisal of the use and understanding of contestability for correctional services in the UK and its prospects under the National Offender Manangement Service. ISBN-10 1 86134 812 6 UK
Transforming Criminal Justice - Protecting the Public, Partnership in Offender Management (PDF)
CBI, 2006
A Five Year Strategy for Protecting the Public and Reducing Re-offending (PDF) Home Office, 2006 The Stationery Office Plans for reforming the criminal justice system including the introduction of a system built on the commissioning of services from expert providers and a phased programme of contestability. UK
Partial Regulatory Impact Assessment: Restructuring Probation to Reduce Re-offending (PDF) National Offender Management Service (NOMS), 2005 Report on the potential benefits of removing the statutory restriction on the provision of probation services. It anticpates that such a regime could produce big incentives to create innovative programmes and reduce re-conviction rates. UK
The Impact of Corrections on Re-Offending: A Review of 'What Works' (PDF)
Harper, Gemma and Chitty, Chloe (Eds), 2005
Home Office Research, Development and Statistics Directorate
Reducing Crime, Changing Lives: The Government's Plans for Transforming the Management of Offenders (PDF) Blunkett, David, 2004 Home Office The Government's response to the Carter Review which endorses the application of contestability to the delivery of correctional services and outlines the Government's intention to encourage private companies and not-for-profit organisations to compete for work. UK
Managing Offenders, Reducing Crime: A New Approach (PDF) Carter, Patrick, 2003 Prime Minister's Strategy Unit Review of correctional services which proposes the establishment of the National Offender Management Service to provide end-to-end offender management. Greater use of competition from the private and voluntary sectors is put forward as a way of improving effectiveness and value for money. UK
Report on Government Services 2002 - Part D: Justice (PDF) Steering Committee Report, 2002 Productivity Commission
Report produced by the Steering Committee for the Review of Commonwealth/State Service Provision (SCRCSSP). Part D: Justice, covers police services, court administration and corrective services - including capital costs, future directions in performance reporting, policy developments.
Australia
Privatization in Criminal Justice: Past, Present and Future Shichor, David and Gilber, Michael J. (eds), 2001 Anderson Publishing A collection of essays, mainly by academics, which includes discussion of the historical development of privatisation in the criminal justice sector, case studies and consideration of the methodology used to assess its impact. ISBN 1 58360 500 2 US
Private Security (Volume 1)
George, Bruce & Button, Mark , 2000
Perpetuity Press
An analysis of the wider private security industry looking at its use in the areas of commerce and the public sector. Includes chapters on detention and policing services.