TY - BOOK ID - 78639906 TI - Punishment and politics: evidence and emulation in the making of English crime control policy PY - 2004 SN - 1135998116 1281331872 9786611331870 1843924757 9781135998110 1843920638 9781843920632 184392062X 9781843920625 9781843924753 9781135998189 1135998183 9781135998257 1135998256 9781281331878 6611331875 PB - Cullompton Willan DB - UniCat KW - Criminal justice, Administration of UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:78639906 AB - Labour has embarked upon a root and branch remaking of the criminal justice system in England and Wales, with a mass of new legislation implemented or planned. It has ensured a continuously high profile for criminal justice issues, and they have been at the centre of wider political discourse. Yet the basis and evidence on which these reforms are being introduced is both uncertain and highly controversial. Despite spending tens of millions of pounds of research into the criminal justice system in the name of evidence-based policy, evidence has counted only in relation to lowlevel technocratic ER -