Michael Tonry is Professor of Criminal Law at the University of Minnesota.

This provocative yet authoritative book seeks to expose and to unravel what has really driven the making of criminal justice policy in the UK. It will be essential reading for anybody interested in knowing what is going on in criminal justice, and why it is so central to political debate more generally.

1. Evidence 2. Rhetoric 3. English exceptionalism 4. Race 5. Sentencing 6. Violence 7. What's next?