ABSTRACT
We have seen above and elsewhere in this book that during the 1980s the British Home Office came to promote what Jock Young has termed the new ‘administrative criminology’. The emphasis on reducing the opportunity to offend through small-scale situational crime prevention schemes was in perfect accord with the ideological viewpoint of a Conservative Government 1979-97 committed to notions of rational choice and making people take responsibility for their actions but there had also been good practical reasons for this shift in emphasis.
