ABSTRACT
Chapter 15 by Simonas Nikartas is entitled “Privatization of Criminal Justice in Eastern Europe”. Simonas reviews trends in the privatization of punishment in those European countries which he says have a common history, all having once been subject to communist control. This, he says, has shaped the specific political, cultural, economic and social context of that region. Simonas discusses the specific factors involved in the privatization of criminal justice in the region, reviews the attempts to privatize prisons, and focuses mainly on electronic monitoring, this being the most common form of private sector involvement in criminal justice in the region. He concludes that EM has had the greatest use and impact on Eastern European countries’ privatization programmes.
