404 not found error: searching for truth in privatized corrections through online material

dc.contributor.advisorPerry, Barbara
dc.contributor.advisorAvi, Shahid
dc.contributor.authorGould, Lakelan Richard
dc.date.accessioned2013-02-22T19:24:26Z
dc.date.accessioned2022-03-29T17:43:07Z
dc.date.available2013-02-22T19:24:26Z
dc.date.available2022-03-29T17:43:07Z
dc.date.issued2012-12-01
dc.degree.disciplineCriminology
dc.degree.levelMaster of Arts (MA)
dc.description.abstractIn the last three decades private involvement in correctional service has transformed. Since the 1980s private interest in correctional service has evolved from the delivery of tertiary and secondary services such as transportation, food, and medical services toward the provision of primary services such as design, construction, and complete management of correctional facilities. In an attempt to fill a gap in the literature surrounding correctional privatization, I examine to what extent corporate published online material explores the issue of incarceration, underlying theoretical ideology of prison, and what general and specific information is presented to online readers. Using a content analysis, results indicate inaccurate and incomplete information is presented to online readers culminating with incarceration constructed as the only choice to combat crime. Results also indicate strong Neo-liberal doctrine underlining the material, specifically, strong support for continued privatization, offender commodification, continued deregulation of public service, belief in the free market, and the transfer of government to corporate control. Together, these themes highlight the extension of a new economy of the power to punish.en
dc.description.sponsorshipUniversity of Ontario Institute of Technologyen
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10155/304
dc.language.isoenen
dc.subjectCorrectionsen
dc.subjectPrivatizationen
dc.subjectCorrectional privatizationen
dc.subjectOnline representationen
dc.title404 not found error: searching for truth in privatized corrections through online materialen
dc.typeThesisen
thesis.degree.disciplineCriminology
thesis.degree.grantorUniversity of Ontario Institute of Technology
thesis.degree.nameMaster of Arts (MA)

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