Contents: Introduction; Part I Policing: The police, class and politics; The police in the class structure; Fuzzy thoughts: the police and law-and-order politics; In the office of Chief Constable; Policing a postmodern society; From PC Dixon to Dixon plc: policing and police powers since 1954 (with T. Newburn); Neophilia or back to basics? Policing research and the seductions of crime control; New theories of policing: a social democratic critique. Part II Popular Culture and Crime: The new blue films; True lies: changing images of crime in British postwar cinema, (with Jessica Allen and Sonia Livingstone); Media, crime, law and order. Part III Political Economy of Crime and Control: The state and British criminology; Crime and control in Britain; Beyond risk: a lament for social democratic criminology; Law and order - a 20:20 vision; Neo-liberalism, crime and criminal justice; The law and order trap; Citizenship, crime, criminalization: marshalling a social democratic perspective; List of publications; Name Index.
