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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.
| Improving Prison and Probation Services: Public Value Partnerships (PDF) |
| National Offender Management Service (NOMS), 2006 |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| 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. |
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| 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. |
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| 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 |
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| 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. |
| ISBN 1 899287 70 1 |
| UK |
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