The Abolition of Liberty: The Decline of Order and Justice in England by Peter Hitchens |
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Hitchens makes it clear from the start that he is a member of the hang 'em and flog 'em brigade, and declares that Britain will never become safe again until politicians adopt the same stance. As a columnist for the Mail on Sunday, his views express much of what Middle England has thought for a long time and they continue the theme begun in his earlier book, The Abolition of Britain. The liberal Left will challenge virtually all of Hitchens's interpretations, not to mention his suggestions on how to put things right. He advocates zero tolerance against not just the crooks in society but also the antisocial and the inconsiderate. Police must be put back on the beat, the 'massaging' of crime figures has to end, and the right of proper self-protection must be restored to the individual, he says. Present policies, which he regards with scorn as far too softly-softly, have only encouraged the explosion in crime and removed freedom from law-abiding citizens. 'England is rapidly becoming a place where the good are afraid of the bad and the bad are not afraid of anything,' he writes. And he believes the police have become 'a distant bureaucracy whose main purpose is to function as a crime-reporting agency for government statisticians and insurance companies'. There is much more hard-hitting stuff along those lines. But this is no mere polemical outburst - Hitchens looks at the wider social context too and offers some solutions that many would consider to be common sense. As a first step, he advocates jettisoning the idea that criminals are themselves victims and that they need help rather than punishment. Whether you agree with ideas such as this or not, they focus on a real problem in society and raise many talking points. (Kirkus UK)
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Crime is a political football - both left and right are terrified of seeming "soft" on the issue, but for all their efforts, or apparent efforts, crime rates continue to rise. Clearly something needs to be done. But what? Peter Hitchens argues that the time has come to re-examine the criminal justice system root and branch - to cope with rising levels of violent crime, and to restore public faith in society's ability to defend itself. Whatever you think of the solutions Hitchens suggests to this problem, you can be sure that they will excite controversy.
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Hitchens makes it clear from the start that he is a member of the hang 'em and flog 'em brigade, and declares that Britain will never become safe again until politicians adopt the same stance. As a columnist for the Mail on Sunday, his views express much of what Middle England has thought for a long time and they continue the theme begun in his earlier book, The Abolition of Britain. The liberal Left will challenge virtually all of Hitchens's interpretations, not to mention his suggestions on how to put things right. He advocates zero tolerance against not just the crooks in society but also the antisocial and the inconsiderate. Police must be put back on the beat, the 'massaging' of crime figures has to end, and the right of proper self-protection must be restored to the individual, he says. Present policies, which he regards with scorn as far too softly-softly, have only encouraged the explosion in crime and removed freedom from law-abiding citizens. 'England is rapidly becoming a place where the good are afraid of the bad and the bad are not afraid of anything,' he writes. And he believes the police have become 'a distant bureaucracy whose main purpose is to function as a crime-reporting agency for government statisticians and insurance companies'. There is much more hard-hitting stuff along those lines. But this is no mere polemical outburst - Hitchens looks at the wider social context too and offers some solutions that many would consider to be common sense. As a first step, he advocates jettisoning the idea that criminals are themselves victims and that they need help rather than punishment. Whether you agree with ideas such as this or not, they focus on a real problem in society and raise many talking points. (Kirkus UK)
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Crime is a political football - both left and right are terrified of seeming "soft" on the issue, but for all their efforts, or apparent efforts, crime rates continue to rise. Clearly something needs to be done. But what? Peter Hitchens argues that the time has come to re-examine the criminal justice system root and branch - to cope with rising levels of violent crime, and to restore public faith in society's ability to defend itself. Whatever you think of the solutions Hitchens suggests to this problem, you can be sure that they will excite controversy.
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