This is the fifth and final volume in the Official History of Criminal Justice in England and Wales. It covers the uneven and often irresolute evolution of policing from the late 1940s to the end of the 1990s.
Tim Newburn is Professor of Criminology and Social Policy at the London School of Economics, UK, and a former President of the British Society of Criminology. He is author of over 40 books, including The Official History of Criminal Justice in England and Wales, Volume IV: The Politics of Law and Order (Routledge, 2022) with David Downes.
