Crime and Punishment in Britain

to date. The task he sets himself, j! describe the penal system in Britai" in theory, law and practice, is a' enormous one and, in so far as tb'| is possible within the covers of of1 volume, he succeeds. What is oUl standing is his approach: instead the usual airy-fairy theorising, 1 which criminology all too readi' lends itself, Dr. Walker introduce scientific methodology. Not only thj but where he uses, for example, statf tical methods of analysis of data, \ goes to great lengths to expfo1 exactly how these are applied. He, helped, too, by the clarity of his wr> ting and not a little wry humour.