title: Tough on… what? New Labour’s war on crime statistics
abstract: New Labour’s term in office has been remarkable for the emphasis the government has placed on ‘law and order’ issues - traditionally associated with Conservative rather than Labour governments. A more significant innovation, representing a break with the law-andorder Right as well as the Left, has been the adoption of a broad and coherent preventive agenda, aimed at the active management of both crime and non-criminal disorder. An unintended consequence of New Labour’s ‘disorder prevention’ prog