TY - JOUR
AU - Biles, David
AB - BOOK REVIEWS 191 There follows, then, chapters dealing with the Merseyside riots, including the incidents prior to the 1981 riots as well as an analysis of what happened in Toxteth in the summer of 1981. Included also is a review of the Scarman report as well as a critical analysis of the "left realist" views of John Lea and Jock Young. The final chapters deal with the emergence of a form of national police as a response to the problem of policing the miners' strikes, and then an analysis of the possible responses to the current state of the police in England. This is, of course, a stridently left analysis which some might find too partisan in its structure. To this reviewer it is, however, a powerful document precisely because it so eloquently states an oppposition view. A major conclusion of the book is that there needs to be concern with mechanisms for the monitoring of police, such monitoring not being seen as an alternative, but in fact the "only effective" means for opening police policies and practices to public scrutiny. Scraton provides (too briefly, in my view) a list of the main elements of successful police monitoring. While 
TI - Book Review: Understanding and Controlling Crime; Toward a New Research Strategy
JF - Australian & New Zealand Journal of Criminology
DO - 10.1177/000486588702000308
DA - 1987-09-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/sage/book-review-understanding-and-controlling-crime-toward-a-new-research-pyBqRSkr09
SP - 191
EP - 192
VL - 20
IS - 3
DP - DeepDyve
ER -