Deals with the concerns about crime and punishment of that most vivid of judicial creations, 'The Man or Woman on the Clapham Omnibus'. This book explains that this human reference point for reason and good sense is likely to be far more receptive to sound explanation and argument than the media (and tabloid press in particular) might give credit.
Identifies a lost ingredient of criminal justice: showing where criminal justice 'went wrong'; why it needs to recover and change direction; and contains important new proposals.
King and Chaos is the first close study of the issues, personalities, and significance of the 1935 federal election, a turning point that fractured the two-party system and permanently changed Canada’s political landscape.
Escalating resort to prisons, longer sentences, overcrowded and ineffective regimes, high rates of re-offending and eclectic penal policy all combine to fuel the crisis, whilst failing to reduce offending. This book argues that the symptoms of this penal malaise are grounded in the media sensationalism of crime.