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282 BOOK REVIEWS (1983) 16 ANZJ CRIM Law and Order: Arguments for Socialism. Ian Taylor, Macmillan, London (1981) 234 pp. For those students of criminology during the 1970s, like the reviewer, who discovered The New Criminology by Taylor, Walton and Young, and have awaited the development of the ideas contained in that book with some degree of interest, many are likely to be surprised by the tone and content of Professor Taylor's book. The book title's resemblance to Tony Benn's recent Arguments for Socialism is no confidence, giving a clue to the book's thesis. For Taylor's treatment of the development of social policy in the post-World War II British welfare state, and the emergence of radical critiques of the prison system, the police, the legal system and the position of women under the law, does not take the form of a criminological treatise. Instead it is a political document, intended to fill the need (identified by Taylor) in the Labour Party for a more theoretically coherent policy on law and order issues, and to provide a blueprint for a transition from the existing state of affairs to a socialist democracy. Appearing at a moment when factionalism in the Labour
Australian & New Zealand Journal of Criminology – SAGE
Published: Dec 1, 1983
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