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Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Nice book in great condition. Pages in excellent condition. No notes or highlighting. See images. Fantastic book.

About the book >.>.> The wicked the selfish and the violent are-according to Peter Hitchens – freer from restraint than they have been since the age of Charles Dickens. His 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. He points out that in the years before the First World War- a time in which millions lived in wretched slums or survived on breadline wages – the mass of people in prison were there for offences that would be considered trivial today. Hitchens sets out to explain the astonishing increase in recorded crime between 1921 and 2001 which – even allowing for population growth and different methods of calculation- has risen from 100000 offences per year to more than five million. (SP)