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A Land Fit for Criminals - An Insider's View Of Crime, Punishment And Justice In The UK (Paperback)
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A Land Fit for Criminals - An Insider's View Of Crime, Punishment And Justice In The UK (Paperback)
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The British public today endure some of the world's worst crime
levels. According to the government's own estimates, 132 million
indictable crimes alone are committed every year, the vast majority
of which go unrecorded and undetected. Burglary is rife; street
crime burgeoning and violence is escalating to unprecedented
levels. Fear of crime means that many of us - especially the
vulnerable and the elderly - have become prisoners in our own
homes, leaving predatory criminals free to roam our streets. In
this meticulously researched and passionately argued study of the
contemporary British justice system, David Fraser offers a sobering
indictment of post-war British governments, who have not only
overseen but also fostered this spectacular and terrifying rise in
crime. Almost without exception, governments - and the civil
servants and academics who abet them - have sought to persuade us
that criminals are victims of society and that they are best
rehabilitated within the community rather than punished inside
prisons. So pervasive has this 'anti-prison propaganda' become that
few of whatever political complexion are now prepared to question
its truth. However, as David Fraser cogently argues, community
supervision and probation orders have simply left criminals free to
reoffend, while the criminal justice system's near obsession with
the well-being of criminals has come to override its concerns for
their victims, whose interests and sufferings are callously
ignored. Moreover, he suggests successive governments' failure to
carry out what is their first duty - to protect their citizens -
threatens to undermine our democracy, as more and more people -
exasperated by the blatant injustice of the justice system - take
the law into their own hands. Britain has indeed become 'a land fit
for criminals'.
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