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What is to Be Done About Law and Order?

What is to Be Done About Law and Order?

Crisis in the Nineties

by John Lea and Jock Young

Challenges many of the Left's traditional attitudes toward crime and policing, proposing instead a rigourous, new Left realism
The authors look at the connection between democracy and efficiency as they investigate the meaning of law and order. The authors argue that only through a democratically accountable police service can we hope to build up relationships within the inner city.

John Lea is a Visiting Professor at Goldsmiths College, University of London. He is the author of several books, including What Is To Be Done About Law and Order? (Pluto, 1993) and Crime and Modernity (Sage, 2002).

Jock Young is Professor of Criminology and Head of the Centre for Criminology at Middlesex University.

Published by Pluto Press in Apr 1993
Paperback ISBN: 9780745303987

135mm x 215mm