The Australian Institute of Criminology is developing a public policy report that provides guidance to states and territories on prison privatisation. The Director of the Institute solicits input from scholars to help develop his recommendations, and you will prepare an essay that addresses the following points:
a. Different models of privatisation
b. The evolution of prison privatisation
c. The growth and use of privatisation in Australia and abroad
d. Advantages of privatisation
e. Disadvantages of privatisation and recommendations for reform
f. Economic, political, and sociological considerations in privatisation
g. Policy recommendations for Australia’s use of private prisons given the sum of available research findings
