"This is an outstanding introduction to the history, development and current issues of some key areas of criminal justice policy in England and Wales...It is well written, easy to follow...A superb student text but also a most for anyone new to the field." Labour Campaign for Criminal Justice

• Introduction1 The emergence of the modern penal systemThe emergence of a new penal system?The inter-War years2 Prisons and imprisonment in post-War BritainThe Criminal Justice Act 1967Grievances among the incarceratedThe May ReportThe prison crisis escalatesStrangeways and the Woolf ReportThe response to WoolfPrivatisation and penal policyThe aims of imprisonment?The 1990s and beyond: the spectre of mass incarceration3 The new police and the emergence of policing policyThe emergence of the modern police serviceThe police and policing after the Royal CommissionThe Royal Commission on the Police 1960The Police Act 1964The introduction of Unit Beat PolicingThe uncovering of corruption in the 1970sA changing political context: policing after 1979Urban unrest and policing the riotsPolicing the miners' strikeThe Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984Police investigationPolice accountabilityPolice complaintsFinancing the policeThe spectre of privatisationCrime prevention and community policing4 Policing: the 1990s and beyondThe White Paper on police reformThe Sheehy InquiryThe Royal Commission on Criminal JusticeThe Home Office Review of Core and Ancillary TasksThe Police and Magistrates' Courts Act 1994Other aspects of centralisationPolicing under ‘New' Labour'The Stephen Lawrence InquiryThe Crime and Disorder Act 1998