This book provides an insight into criminal offending by a man well-qualified to describe the mechanisms of our over-worked criminal justice system and those who pass through it. Lord Windlesham expounds some of the leading issues in criminology and public policy: victims of crime, drugs, juvenile delinquency, commercial fraud, prisons, parole, and crime prevention. He distinguishes between contrasting types of offender and singles out those policies which are most likely to contribute to the greater protection of the public.