دانلود کتاب Competition for Prisons: Public or Private?

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COMPETITION FOR PRISONS\nContents\nList of tables and figures\n Tables\n Figures\nList of acronyms\nPreface\n1. Origins\n Prologue\n The state of the prisons\n Preparing the ground\n The route to legislation\n2. Evolution\n 1992–97: establishing a viable market\n 1997–2000: Labour and the PFI boom\n The 2000s: drift and indecision\n 2010–15: Coalition government: the end of competition?\n3. Related markets: immigration – two sectors, no competition\n A strange silence\n Development of the immigration detention estate\n A perfect market?\n Comparing sectors\n Conclusion\n4. Youth custody\n Background\n 1993–97 Conservative government and Secure Training Centres\n 1997 onwards: Labour, expansion of the private sector and creation of the Youth Justice Board\n Managing rising, then falling, demand\n 2010 Coalition government\n Competition?\n Conclusion\n5. Related markets: electronic monitoring – fall of the giants\n The fall\n What did the contractors do wrong?\n Why did they behave like this?\n Impact\n The untold half of the story\n Why are these questions not being asked?\n Non-barking watchdogs\n So who is to blame?\n6. The quasi-market: characteristics and operation\n Quasi-markets in public services\n Scope and size of the quasi-market\n The customer\n Government’s dual role: customer and competitor\n Private sector view of government as customer\n The private sector suppliers\n Operation of the quasi-market\n Conclusions\n7. Comparing public and contracted prisons\n8. Comparing quality of service\n Methodological and data issues\n Home Office studies of four ‘management only’ contracted prisons\n National Audit Office study of the operational performance of PFI prisons\n HM Inspectorate ratings\n Statistical analysis by HMIP (2009)\n NOMS Prison Rating System (PRS)\n The Cambridge research\n Comparison of quality at male local prisons\n Prisons in trouble\n Financial penalties\n Conclusions\n Four prisons in trouble\n9. Costing the uncostable? Civil Service pensions\n The elephant in the room\n The question\n The Principal Civil Service Pension Scheme\n Benchmarks\n Does it really matter?\n Conclusions\n10. Costing the uncostable? PFI\n PFI in prisons\n Criticisms of PSCs\n Length of PFI contracts and value for money\n Comparison with PFI in other services\n The Mouchel study\n Thameside PFI\n The end of PFI\n Conclusions\n11. Comparing cost\n Some general issues about comparing costs\n ‘Management only’ contracts (new builds)\n Market tests\n PFIs versus PSCs: the data\n Construction: cost and speed\n Structure of the difference in operational cost between sectors\n Cost versus quality\n Can the public sector match private sector costs?\n Conclusions\n12. Impact of competition on the public sector\n 1990: the Prison Service as basket case\n Extent of improvement 1990–2010\n What drove this improvement?\n Scotland revisited\n Innovation\n Innovation in the contracted sector\n Innovation in the public sector\n Barriers to innovation\n Conclusions\n13. Objections of principle\n Bad in principle, or bad in practice?\n ‘Punishment is the preserve of the State’\n What are the requirements for adequate control, accountability and transparency?\n ‘Immoral to make a profit out of suffering’\n ‘Driving increased incarceration’\n Competition means a race to the bottom\n What the public – and prisoners – think\n The contrarian position: monopoly is immoral\n Conclusions\n14. Related markets: probation – how not to do it\n Seeing off competition\n Kenneth Clarke’s proposals, 2012\n Grayling and ‘Transforming Rehabilitation’\n Proposed reinvestment\n Failure to cost programme\n The organisational model for the new system is untried, over-complex and highly risky\n Uncertainty and risk about PBR\n Doubts about competence\n Dealing with failure\n Approach to risk\n Comparison with competition in prisons\n First inspection reports\n Conclusion\n15. Has competition worked?\n Has competition been worthwhile?\n How well has government managed competition?\n Mistakes, mis-steps and missed opportunities\n16. Has competition a future?\n The end of competition?\n No difference between sectors?\n The new contractual model\n Competition can be reintroduced at any time to deal with any failing public sector prison\n Why competition matters\n Conclusion\n Wider reflections\nAppendix: Prescription of operating procedures in prison contracts\nBibliography\nIndex\nUntitled