Wildy Logo
(020) 7242 5778
enquiries@wildy.com

Book of the Month

Cover of Company Directors: Duties, Liabilities and Remedies

Company Directors: Duties, Liabilities and Remedies

Edited by: Mark Arnold KC, Simon Mortimore KC
Price: £275.00

Lord Denning: Life, Law and Legacy



  


Welcome to Wildys

Watch


NEW EDITION Pre-order Mortgage Receivership: Law and Practice



 Stephanie Tozer, Cecily Crampin, Tricia Hemans
Practical guidance to relevant law & procedure


Offers for Newly Called Barristers & Students

Special Discounts for Newly Called & Students

Read More ...


Secondhand & Out of Print

Browse Secondhand Online

Read More...


Easter Closing

We will be closed between Friday 29th March and Monday 1st April for the Easter Bank Holidays, reopening at 8.30am on Tuesday 2nd April. Any orders received during this period will be processed with when we re-open.

Hide this message

Punishment and Politics


ISBN13: 9781843920625
ISBN: 184392062X
Published: July 2006
Publisher: Willan Publishing
Country of Publication: UK
Format: Paperback
Price: £30.99



Usually despatched in 1 to 3 weeks.

Labour has embarked on a root and branch remaking of the criminal justice system of England and Wales. New proposals and initiatives tumble out weekly and major legislation is enacted every year. Despite Government claims to engage in evidence-based policy-making, the evidence on which many changes are based is uncertain and controversial. On many of the biggest issues the evidence points clearly in one direction and the Government has marched decisively in the other. No other western governments have chosen to emulate the disastrous American crime control policies and politics of the past quarter century in this way. American-style mandatory minimum sentence laws, correctional boot camps, and zero-tolerance policing have all been adopted, despite their well documented failures in the US. England has the highest imprisonment rate, the most crowded prisons, the severest sentencing practices, the most hyperbolic anti-crime rhetoric, and the worst racial disparities in imprisonment in Europe. Much of the burden of the new English toughness is borne by members of racial and ethnic minorities. Years of overheated rhetoric about a 'sentencing system that does not make sense' and 'balanci

Subjects:
Criminology
Contents:
Preface; 1 Evidence; 2 Rhetoric, substance and symbols; 3 Explaining English exceptionalism; 4 Race matters; 5 Sentencing matters; 6 Violence matters; 7 What's next? References; Index