This is Volume IV in the Official History of Criminal Justice in England and Wales, and examines the changing politics of law and order, charting the gradual shift toward greater political conflict and dispute.
David Downes is Professor Emeritus of Social Policy and a member and former director of the Mannheim Centre for Criminology and Criminal Justice at the London School of Economics, UK.
Tim Newburn is Professor of Criminology and Social Policy at the London School of Economics, UK.
