Because the provision of justice cannot constitute a true free market (at least, in those cases that cannot be resolved through voluntary agreements), any attempt to apply market laws to a system of multiple justice providers is totally fallacious. In particular, we cannot conclude that "competition" in such a system would generate a higher-quality or less costly product than could be provided by a liberal government. It is not denied that certain parts of the criminal justice process, insofar as they do not require the imposition of force, might provided in a true competitive market. We have already suggested that a competitive system of privatized work camps could supplant the current monopoly prison system (pp. 5.5:70-1); moreover, important benefits of information synergy (p. 5.4:15) might be reaped if some aspects of police investigation were undertaken by competing private agencies. The justice function as a whole, however, cannot logically be provided by free-market competition.