Maguire, Morgan & Reiner: The Oxford Handbook of Criminology 4e 
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Chapter 09
There have been few studies of the part played by 'law and order' in British political life. Philip Norton's Law and Order and British Politics (Gower, 1984) and Mike Brake and Chris Hale's Public Order and Private Lives: the Politics of Law and Order (Routledge, 1992), the latter a highly critical account of the Thatcher years, are exceptions. David Downes's edited collection, Unravelling Criminal Justice (Macmillan, 1992), contains relevant essays, particularly those by Bottoms and Stevenson on the extent and difficulties of the liberal consensus, and McBarnet on the burgeoning field of tax avoidance and evasion. Roger Hood's collection, Crime, Criminology and Public Policy: Essays in Honour of Leon Radzinowicz (Heinemann, 1974), provides detailed scrutiny of the public policy issues of the mid-period, and Terence Morris's Crime and Criminal Justice in Britain since 1945 (Blackwell, 1989) covers the entire period with shrewd political insight. The criminal justice record in government of New Labour since 1997 is the subject of critical scrutiny by Michael Tonry in Confronting Crime (Willan, 2003). The collections of essays edited by Kevin Stenson and Richard Sullivan, Crime, Risk and Justice: The politics of crime control in liberal democracies (Willan, 2001) and Tim Newburn and Richard Sparks, Criminal Justice and Political Cultures—National and international dimensions of crime control (Willan, 2004), together with Trevor Jones and Tim Newburn's monograph, Policy Transfer and Criminal Justice (Open University Press, 2006), place British developments in a broader, international, comparative dimension, in particular tracing American influence. Michael Cavadino and James Dignan's Penal Systems: A Comparative Approach (Sage, 2006) does the same specifically for penal policy. Finally, Mick Ryan (Penal Policy and Political Culture in England and Wales (Waterside, 2003)) is a political scientist in criminology who over many years has documented the micro-politics of penal reform in the wider political economy of Britain.
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