"Over the past few years, opposition to the privatisation in public services in the United Kingdom and elsewhere has grown, especially in areas related to criminal justice. Privatisation has existed within the British criminal justice system at least since the early 1990s, but the privatisation...

"This book is an authoritative reference source for the latest scholarly material on social problems involving victimization of minorities and police accountability and presenting relevant perspectives on a global and cross-cultural scale"--Provided by publisher.

Criminal justice reform has fast become a popular issue. Two areas of concern regard the use of private prisons, correctional facilities owned an operated by private agencies as opposed to government entities, and the use of civil asset forfeiture by police. In each of these cases, the “profit...

That HIV/AIDS has had an enormous impact on southern Africa in general, and in Botswana in particular, is not in doubt. Numerous studies have documented certain aspects of the problem -- high HIV prevalence rates, increasing numbers of orphans and vulnerable children, declining average life...