Key Information
Reference code
K/PP106/10/6/14
Title
Articles about law enforcement and the penal system, 1975-1991
Date(s)
- 1975 - 1991 (Creation)
Level of description
Item
Scope and content
Articles about law enforcement and the penal system, including: book reviews from the New Statesman, 10 Oct 1875, Wings and Hunters: The origin of the Black Act, by E P Thompson, and Albion's Fatal Tree: Crime and Society in 18th century England, by Douglas Hay, Peter Linebaigh and E P Thompson; article on the ‘May Report’ on the prison system, New Statesman, 9 Nov 1979; extract from Hannah Arendt’s Crises of the Republic, 1973 on civil disobedience; Time magazine article on the policy beating of Rodney King, Los Angeles, 1991; New Statesman article on prison privitisation, by Jolyon Jenkins, 1991.