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A BRIEF HISTORY OF CRIME - By Peter Hitchens - Hardback Book | |
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ISBN: 1843541483 | £7.00
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| THE DECLINE OF ORDER, JUSTICE AND LIBERTY IN ENGLAND. This trenchant and provocative book sets out to show that much of today's debate about crime and punishment is based on mistaken beliefs, misunderstood or massaged figures and cheap slogans. Hitchens discusses such points as; the years before the First World War at the mass of people in prison for offences that would be considered trivial today to the staggering increase in recorded crime between 1921 and 2001. His powerful and counter-intuitive conclusions make challenging reading for thse on the Left and on the Right. However, he suggests that a society can remain free if it clearly and decisively punishes wicked actions and concentrates on preventing crime and disorder, rather than detecting it too late. This country, he argues, must choose between the supposed human rights of wrongdoers and the liberty of all.
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PUBLISHER: ATLANTIC BOOKS
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PUBLISHED: 2003
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SIZE: 242MM X 165MM
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PAGES: 315
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HARDBACK
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CONDITION: FINE in fine dj
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1 COPY ONLY. BUY NOW
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| Reference: | ISBN: 1843541483 |
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| Weight: | 0.77 kg |
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