Contents

Preface

Acknowledgements

Introduction

Chapter 1: Your papers, please

Chapter 2: The causes of crime

Chapter 3: ‘Bobbies on the beat’

Chapter 4: The slow, bureaucratic death of George Dixon

Chapter 5: Making bad people worse

Chapter 6: Evil drug-dealers

Chapter 7: Twelve angry persons

Chapter 8: Institutional defeatism

Chapter 9: Justice denied

Postscript