This chapter explores one aspect of the profound changes in crime, control, and criminal justice over the last thirty years, the mysterious disappearance of social democratic criminology. In addition, it determines what is meant by ‘social democratic’ criminology. Next, it interprets its virtually complete replacement by a variety of perspectives to which a general label ‘contrology’ is given. It concentrates on six dimensions of the complex patterns of change, namely trends in crime and disorder, politicization of law and order, public discourse, policy shifts, socio-economic and cultural change and from criminology to contrology. It then argues that without a return to social democracy — however remote this may appear — the future directions of crime and control are grim.
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