Liberalism and Crime: The British Experience Book

Preface     ix
Introduction: What Question Is This Book the Answer To?     1
A Thumbnail Sketch of Recent British Criminal Justice     17
The Autonomous Individual
The Revolt of British Criminology in the 1970s     43
The Autonomous Individual as the Reasoning Criminal     61
The Power of the State
The "Nothing Works" Argument as a Program for Change     83
The Police and the Birmingham Centre's Critique     101
The Multiagency Approach to Implementation     119
The Persistence of the State in British Policing and Prisons     139
The Rule of Law
The Warwick School's Challenge and the Rule of Law     161
Radzinowicz's Empire and the Rule of Law     177
Conclusions     199
Selected Bibliography     215
Index     221
About the Author     227