This book provides a detailed review of the thinking behind New Labour's promise to be 'tough on crime, tough on the causes of crime', looking at policies and proposals in the field of punishment, particularly those embodied in the Halliday Review of the Sentencing Framework (2001), the government White Paper Justice for All (2002), and the 2002 Criminal Justice Bill.

Preface 1. Evidence, Elections and Ideology in the Making of Criminal Justice 2. Drug Dependent Offenders and Justice for All3. Unprincipled Sentencing? The Policy Approach to Dangerous Sex Offenders 4. Nuisance Offenders: Scooping the Public Policy Problems5. Procedural and Evidential Protections in the English Courts6. Sentencing Guidelines7. Sentence Management: A New Role for the Judiciary8. Is Sentencing in England and Wales Institutionally Racist?9. Custody Plus, Custody Minus10. Reducing the Prison Population11. Justice for All

Michael Tonry is Professor of Law and Public Policy and Director of the Institute of Criminology, University of Cambridge, and Sonosky Professor of Law and Public Policy, University of Minnesota.