Changing of the Guards: Private Influences, Privatization, and Criminal Justice in Canada

Foreword: Privatization of Criminal Justice: Emotional, Intellectual, and Political Responses / Adam White

Introduction: Canadian Perspectives on Private Influences and Privatization in Criminal Justice / Alex Luscombe, Kevin Walby, and Derek Silva

Part 1: Private Provision and Purchase of Security

1 Police, Private Security, and Institutional Isomorphism / Massimiliano Mulone

2 Private Policing of Images in Canada / Steven Kohm

3 Postsecondary Security in the Canadian Context / Erin Gibbs Van Brunschot

Part 2: Private Actors in City Spaces and Surveillance

4 Policing Canadian Smart Cities: Technology, Race, and Private Influence in Canadian Law Enforcement / Jamie Duncan and Daniella Barreto

5 Platforms and Privatizing Lines: Business Improvement Areas, Municipal Apps, and the Marketization of Public Service / Debra Mackinnon

Part 3: Private Influences and Privatization in Courts, Prisons, and Jails

6 Private Risk Assessment Instruments and Artificial Intelligence in Canada’s Criminal Justice System / Nicholas Pope and Rebecca Jaremko Bromwich

7 The Implications of Food Privatization in Jails: A Case Study of the Ottawa-Carleton Detention Centre / Kaitlin MacKenzie

8 Shape Shifting: The Penal Voluntary Sector and the Governance of Domestic Violence / Rashmee Singh

Part 4: Private Actors in National Security and Border Control

9 Where Public Meets Private: Evidence of an Emerging “Industrial-Espionage Complex” in Canada / Alex Luscombe

10 The Role of Privatization in Canada’s Immigration Detention Centres / Jona Zyfi and Audrey Macklin

Postscript: Privatization Cultures and the Racial Order: A Dispatch from the United States / Torin Monahan

Index