What Everyone in Britain Should Know About Crime and Punishment

ISBN-13: 9781841742694 / Angielski

David Wilson

Opis

This work stems from frustration: a frustration born of successive governments' insistence that prison works; a frustration born of the knowledge of the realities of crime and punishment, and lastly, the kind of society we are becoming when we continue to police and incarcerate at the rate we do. Since the publication of the first edition a real debate has begun about the war on drugs, and whilst we have continued to imprison at a rate higher than our European neighbours this book remains one of the few voices raised in opposition.

Recenzje

'If this book were a boxer, it would be Prince Naseem. It delivers a knockout punch with style and no little arrogance... the book should be read.' Prison Service Journal

O autorze

Professor David Wilson, a former prison governor retired from the Prison Service in 1997 in protest at the state of British jails. Since leaving the Prison Service he has worked as a Senior Policy Advisor to the Prison Reform Trust and now works as Course Director of the Diploma/Masters course at the University of Central England, Birmingham. John Ashton is a television journalist and writer. He is also co-author of Cover-up of Convenience: The Hidden Scandal of Lockerbie.