Tuesday, April 26, 2005

Punishment before justice? / CSF - 2005

PDF - http://www.crimeandsociety.org.uk/pdfs/briefing1_march05.pdf
Rebecca Roberts & Richard Garside
"Highlights concerns arising from the expansion of financial penalties to tackle 'disorderly behaviour' and issues relating to the operation of the scheme. PNDs, the briefing argues, unjustly subject recipients to punishment. They also create a new class of the semi-criminal, who face being put on the fast-track to arrest, prosecution and punishment. "