Book reviews : Police Powers and Politics R. Baldwin and R. Kinsey Quartet, London, 1982, pp.309, £9.95 The Police, Autonomy and Consent M. Brogden Academic Press, London, 1982, pp.265, £20.00 A New Police Authority for London: A consultation Paper on Democratic Control of the Police in London GLC Police Committee, Discussion paper 1, Free from: GLC Police Committee Support Unit, room 567, County Hall, London SE1 7PB pp.82 The Policing Revolution: Police Technology, Democracy and Liberty in Britain Sarah Mainwaring-White Harvester, Brighton 1983, pp.231 Conviction: Law, the State and the Construction of Justice Doreen McBarnet Macmillan, London 2nd edn, pp.182, £7.95 Law, Politics and Justice, Four (eds) Politics and Power Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1981, pp.328, £7.95 Control in the Police Organisation (ed) M. Punch The MIT Press, London, 1983, pp.346 Organizational Police Deviance Clifford Shearing Butterworths, Toronto, 1981, pp.208, $16.95