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Present (Polity, 2008)

6. F. Brookman, Understanding Homicide (SAGE Publications, 2005)

7. D. Freedman and D. Hemenway, ‘Precursors of lethal violence: a death row sample’ Social Science and Medicine, 50 (2000)

8. J. Gilligan, Violence: Reflections on our Deadliest Epidemic (Jessica Kinsley, 1999)

9. C. Lombroso, L’Uomo delinquente (Hoepli, 1876)

10. C. Goring (ed.), The English Convict: A Statistical Study (HMSO, 1913)

11. J. Blau and P. Blau, ‘The cost of inequality: metropolitan structure and violent crime’, American Sociological Review, 47 (1982)

12. M. Gottfredson and T. Hirschi, A General Theory of Crime (Stanford University Press, 1990)

N is for Numbers

1. J. Best, Damned Lies and Statistics: Untangling Numbers from the Media, Politicians and Activists (University of California Press, 2001)

2. J. Straw, Speech to Royal Statistical Society, 25 April 1995, www.rss.org.uk

3. Statistics: A Matter of Trust (TSO, 1998)

4. Fundamental Principles of Official Statistics (United Nations, 1994), www.un.org/en

5. Report of the Rayner Review (HMSO, 1981)

6. Statistics Commission Annual Report 2007–08 (TSO, 2008), www.official-documents.gov.uk

7. History of the UK Statistical System, www.statisticsauthority.gov.uk

8. E. Pickles, ‘Townhall Waste and Duplication’, speech at Hammersmith & Fulham Townhall, 13 October 2010, www.communities.gov.uk/speeches

O is for Opium

1. R. Lart, ‘British medical perception from Rolleston to Brain: changing images of the addict and addiction’, International Journal on Drug Policy, 3 (1992)

2. R. Coomber, The Control of Drugs and Drug Users (Harwood Academic, 1998)

3. D. Bewley-Taylor, The United States and International Drug Control, 1909–1997 (Continuum International Publishing Group, 2001)

4. H. G. Levine, ‘The secret of worldwide drug prohibition: the varieties and uses of drug prohibition’, Independent Review, 7 (2002)

5. W. B. McAllister, Drug Diplomacy in the Twentieth Century: An International History (Routledge, 2000)

6. J. Strang and M. Gossop, Heroin Addiction and the British System: Treatment and Policy Responses (Routledge, 2005)

7. Departmental Committee on Morphine and Heroin Addiction: The Report of the Rolleston Committee (HMSO, 1926)

8. R. Scott, K. Grime and V. Wilmer, Jazz at Ronnie Scott’s (Hale, 1979)

9. R. Yates, ‘A Brief History of British Drug Policy; 1950–2001’, Drugs: Education, Prevention & Policy, 9 (2002)

10. After the War on Drugs: Options for Control (Transform Drug Policy Foundation, 2004)

11. United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, World Drug Report 2011 (United Nations, 2011), www.unodc.org

12. Home Affairs Select Committee, The Government’s Drugs Policy: Is it Working? (TSO, 2002), www.publications.parliament.uk

P is for Poverty

1. T. Hanley, Engaging Public Support for Eradicating UK Poverty (Joseph Rowntree Foundation, 2009), www.jrf.org.uk

2. Society of Editors, Reporting Poverty in the UK: A Practical Guide for Journalists (2009, Joseph Rowntree Foundation), www.mediatrust.org

3. Pew Global Attitudes Project, The Global Middle Class (The Pew Research Center, 2009), www.pewglobal.org

4. L. Bamfield and T. Horton, Understanding Attitudes to Tackling Economic Inequality (Joseph Rowntree Foundation, 2009)

5. Work and Pensions Select Committee Second Report (TSO, 2008), www.publications.parliament.uk

6. S. Castell and J. Thompson, Understanding Attitudes to Poverty in the UK: Getting the Public’s Attention (Joseph Rowntree Foundation and Ipsos MORI, 2007)

7. M. J. Lerner, The Belief In a Just World: A Fundamental Delusion (Plenum Press, 1980)

8. L. D. Applebaum, M. C. Lennon and J. L. Aber, Public Attitudes Toward Low-income Families and Children (National Center for Children in Poverty, 2003), www.nccp.org

9. A. Furnham, The Psychology of Behaviour at Work (Psychology Press, 2005)

10. J. T. Jost and O. Hunyady, ‘The Psychology of System Justification and the Palliative Function of Ideology’, European Review of Social Psychology, 13 (2002)

11. A. Furnham, ‘The Protestant Work Ethic and Attitudes towards Unemployment’, Journal of Occupational Psychology, 55 (1982)

12. M. E. Rose, The English Poor Law: 1780–1930 (Barnes & Noble, 1971)

13. D. Gordon and C. Pantazis (eds.), Breadline Britain in the 1990s (Ashgate, 1997)

14. I. Townshend and S. Kennedy, Poverty: Measures and Targets (House of Commons Library, 2004), www.parliament.uk

Q is for Queen