ABSTRACT
The Stephen Lawrence Inquiry into the failed police investigation of the racist murder of Stephen Lawrence, a young black man, in south London in 1993, began in 1997 and published its findings in 1999. The inquiry (chaired by Sir William Macpherson) received widespread publicity and support – its recommendations being endorsed by the British government and senior police officers – and it succeeded in bringing the policing of racist violence from the periphery to the centre of law-and-order policy in Britain.
