Crime and Criminal Justice Policy

Introduction

1 The emergence of the modern penal system

         The emergence of a new penal system?

         The inter-War years

2 Prisons and imprisonment in post-War Britain

        The Criminal Justice Act 1967

        Grievances among the incarcerated

        The May Report

        The prison crisis escalates

        Strangeways and the Woolf Report

        The response to Woolf

        Privatisation and penal policy

        The aims of imprisonment?

       The 1990s and beyond: the spectre of mass incarceration

3 The new police and the emergence of policing policy

        The emergence of the modern police service

        The police and policing after the Royal Commission

                The Royal Commission on the Police 1960

                The Police Act 1964

                The introduction of Unit Beat Policing

                The uncovering of corruption in the 1970s

        A changing political context: policing after 1979

                Urban unrest and policing the riots

                Policing the miners' strike

               The Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984

                       Police investigation

                       Police accountability

                       Police complaints

               Financing the police

               The spectre of privatisation

               Crime prevention and community policing

4 Policing: the 1990s and beyond

        The White Paper on police reform

        The Sheehy Inquiry

        The Royal Commission on Criminal Justice

        The Home Office Review of Core and Ancillary Tasks

        The Police and Magistrates' Courts Act 1994

        Other aspects of centralisation

        Policing under ‘New' Labour'

                 The Stephen Lawrence Inquiry

                 The Crime and Disorder Act 1998