Britain Tough on Crime?: A View of the British Justice System Through the Newspaper Headlines - Paperback

by David Fraser (Author)

Britian Tough on Crime? provides numerous examples of Britains Newspaper headlines which illustrate that: - community supervision and offender rehabilitation programs do not work;- Crime is a choice not a disease and the anti-prison ideology of our justice elite provides criminals with a licence to offend;- leniency encourages crime;- our justice system is indifferent to the impact that crime has on victims and the public sentencers ignore the evidence that prison works to protect the public;- sentencing has become an empty ritual;- many judges are out of touch with the effects crime has on the public;- the last 60 years of sentencing policy in the UK has made crime easier, safer and more rewarding; Britain has been made a land fit for criminals; Britian Tough on Crime? reveals the justice system's preoccupation with the criminal and indifference to victims and the public.