Crime, State and Citizen: A Field Full of FolkLeading and unrivalled treatment of UK criminal policy making and how this is balanced with citizen's rights and interests, human rights and the need for public safety and accountability - written by an Oxford University academic who was formerly the right-hand-man to seven successive UK Home Secretaries - and in charge of the police and prison departments. 'The best book I have ever read on criminal justice': UK review (Justice of the Peace newspaper). |
Contents
GRAD | vii |
Developments in Society Politics | 18 |
Politics and Crime | 89 |
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