This final volume in Lord Windlesham's magnificent collection contains detailed commentaries on the controversy over access to jury trial, the not yet completed reform of criminal legal aid, and the policy imperative of strengthening the enforcement of community penalties. It also includes a comparative study of the development of public defender systems for indigent persons charged with criminal offenses in the United States.
1. High Tide: Mandatory Sentences, 1995-7 2. The Inheritance: Mandatory Sentences, 1997-9 3. Changing Course: Politics and Policy-Making, 1997-8 4. Reforms in the Criminal Process I: The Crown Prosecution Service 5. Reforms in the Criminal Process II: The Defendants 6. Righting the Balance? Public Defence in America 7. Reforms in the Criminal Process III: Mode of Trial 8. Community Penalties: Enforcement and Structural Change 9. Modernizing Criminal Justice, 1997-2001
Lord Windlesham is the Principal of Brasenose College, Oxford and President of Victim Support.. He was a former Minister at the Home Office and Northern Ireland Office, and as Chairman of the Parole Board for England and Wales for six years in the 1980s.