In the last half of the twentieth century, a once respectable and religious Britain became a seriously violent and dishonest society, one in which person and property were at risk, family breakdown was ubiquitous, and drug and alcohol abuse was rising

Acknowledgements, Introduction, 1. The Strange Death of Respectable Britain, 2. The Strange Death of Moralist Britain, 3. The Death of the Death Penalty and the Decline of the Sacred Hierarchies, 4. The Queer Death of the Laws Prohibiting Homosexual Behavior, 5. The Strange Death of Roman Catholic Britain and the Crisis of Moral Ireland, 6. Conclusion, References, Index