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Contents: The Concept of enforcement -- The Concept of crime -- Detection and prosecution -- The Defence of criminal proceedings -- The Trial of criminal cases -- The process of sentencing -- Mental disorder and criminal proceedings -- Juvenile courts -- General conclusions -- Appendix I: The Judges' rule -- Appendix II: Police and pucblic: procedure for making a complaint against the Police -- Appendix III: The Magistrates' association and consistency of penalties -- Appendix IV: Compensation for victims of crime -- Appendix V: The Judges' memorandum of 1901 on normal punishments -- Appendix VI: Extract from the report of the commissioner of police for the metropolis for 1968 - public order: demonstrations; football matches: hooliganism -- Appendix VII: The Written evidence of sir Harold Emmerson, G.C.B., K.C.V.O., to the royal commission on trade unions and employers' associations on mass prosecution in war time -- Appendix VIII: The Courts act 1971 -- List of statutes cited -- List of cases cited -- List of stationery office publications cited.