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Chapter 21

References from the book:

Brake, M. and Hale, C. (1992) Public Order and Private Lives: The Politics of Law and Order. London: Routledge.
Covers the impact of Conservative policies through the 1970s and 1980s.

Downes, D. and Morgan, R. (1992, 1997, 2002, and 2007) in M. Maguire, M. Morgan and R. Reiner (eds) The Oxford Handbook of Criminology. Oxford: Clarendon Press.
Downes and Morgan provide the most comprehensive reviews of the politics of law and order in the period since 1945.

Garland, D. (2001) The Culture of Control: Crime and Social Order in Contemporary Society. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Provides a broad review of all of these issues.

Young, J. and Matthews, R. (2003) ‘New Labour Crime Control and Social Exclusion’ in J. Young and R. Matthews (eds) The New Politics of Crime and Punishment. Cullompton: Willan Publishing
Includes chapters covering various aspects of New Labour’s law and order policies.

Further references:

The below represent thorough overviews of the development of the politics associated with the formation of criminal justice policy in Britain in recent history.

Bottomley, A. K. & Johnstone G. (eds.) (1998) ‘New Directions in Criminal Justice: Labour's Crime Policy Examined' in Policy Studies, December 1998.

Downes, D. (ed.) (1992) Unravelling Criminal Justice. Macmillan.

Morris, T. (1989) Crime and Criminal Justice in Britain since 1945. Blackwell.
 
Reiner, R. & Cross, M. (1991) Beyond Law and Order: Criminal Justice Policy into the 1990s, Macmillan.

Stenson, K. & Sullivan, R. (eds.) (2001) Crime, Risk and Justice: The politics of crime control in liberal democracies. Willan.