Based on over thirty years of research of government sentencing
policy and work within the criminal justice system, David Fraser
demonstrates that Britain's increased reliance on alternatives to
imprisonment has allowed violent crime to flourish. The number of
life-threatening attacks has increased rapidly over the last forty
years but justice officials have masked this development within a
blizzard of deceptive statistics. Anti-prison groups tell the
public that violent offenders can be managed in the community under
supervision and that prison makes offenders worse. Contrary to this
misleading propaganda, the evidence presented here informs us that
criminals under probation supervision as an alternative to
imprisonment commit hundreds of the most serious crimes every year,
while the government's figures - which are kept away from the
public eye - make it clear that long prison sentences are our best
protection against violent crime. Licence to Kill demonstrates that
the death penalty was an effective deterrent to homicide but does
not argue for its reintroduction. Instead, by acknowledging its
effectiveness, David Fraser argues the case for a re-vamped
sentencing system that is as effective as was the fear of the
hangman's noose. By providing readers with an alternative
perspective, he invites them to consider the idea of a new criminal
sentencing framework.
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