Publisher's Synopsis
In the mid-1970s, conservative politicians attacked the welfare state, intensified the war on drugs, passed harsher criminal sentencing legislation and the courts gave police greater discretion. Imprisonment rates skyrocketed. As a result, revisionist interpretations of the origin and development of the police, prisons, courts, parole and probation flourished. This volume represents the best articles to have come out of the study of criminal justice history in recent times. - -
