Roger Matthews is Professor of Criminology at Middlesex University. Published books include Doing Time (Macmillan, 1999) and Imprisonment (Dartmouth, 1999).Jock Young is Professor of Sociology at Kent University. His research interests span social inclusion and exclusion, including moral panics, deviancy amplification, moral indignation, and the punitive turn.

• 1. New Labour, crime control and social exclusion  2. Winning the fight against crime? New Labour, populism and lost opportunities  3. Institutional racism in policing: the Macpherson report and its consequences  4. Youth justice in England and Wales  5. It's the family, stupid: continuities and reinterpretations of the dysfunctional family as the cause of crime in three political periods  6. Drugs: the great cannabis debate  7. Urban regeneration and crime reduction: contradictions and dilemmas  8. The politics of policing: managerialism, modernization and performance  9. Of crowds, crimes and carnivals  10. Probation into the millennium: the punishing service?  11. Rethinking penal policy: towards a systems approach

Roger Matthews is Professor of Criminology at Middlesex University. Published books include Doing Time (Macmillan, 1999) and Imprisonment (Dartmouth, 1999).Jock Young is Professor of Sociology at Kent University. His research interests span social inclusion and exclusion, including moral panics, deviancy amplification, moral indignation, and the punitive turn.

• 1. New Labour, crime control and social exclusion  2. Winning the fight against crime? New Labour, populism and lost opportunities  3. Institutional racism in policing: the Macpherson report and its consequences  4. Youth justice in England and Wales  5. It's the family, stupid: continuities and reinterpretations of the dysfunctional family as the cause of crime in three political periods  6. Drugs: the great cannabis debate  7. Urban regeneration and crime reduction: contradictions and dilemmas  8. The politics of policing: managerialism, modernization and performance  9. Of crowds, crimes and carnivals  10. Probation into the millennium: the punishing service?  11. Rethinking penal policy: towards a systems approach

Roger Matthews is Professor of Criminology at Middlesex University. Published books include Doing Time (Macmillan, 1999) and Imprisonment (Dartmouth, 1999).Jock Young is Professor of Sociology at Kent University. His research interests span social inclusion and exclusion, including moral panics, deviancy amplification, moral indignation, and the punitive turn.

• 1. New Labour, crime control and social exclusion  2. Winning the fight against crime? New Labour, populism and lost opportunities  3. Institutional racism in policing: the Macpherson report and its consequences  4. Youth justice in England and Wales  5. It's the family, stupid: continuities and reinterpretations of the dysfunctional family as the cause of crime in three political periods  6. Drugs: the great cannabis debate  7. Urban regeneration and crime reduction: contradictions and dilemmas  8. The politics of policing: managerialism, modernization and performance  9. Of crowds, crimes and carnivals  10. Probation into the millennium: the punishing service?  11. Rethinking penal policy: towards a systems approach