They indicate that the crime level rose under the conservative policies of Margaret Thatcher, and they link Thatcher's economic and social policies to an increased militarization of policing, privatization of law and order issues, prison overcrowding, crime rate increases, fraud in business and industry, and lack of attention to health and safety regulations in favor of profit. The authors argue that government continues to undermine basic civil liberties by using legislation as a means of control and coercion. Consideration is given to the British economy since 1945, economic liberalism and conservative criminology, private attitudes and public policies, the police as social workers (community and multiagency policing), the failure of conservative criminology under Thatcher, fraud, and prisons and punishment under conservative criminology. References