Briefing Paper: Punishment before justice?

Rebecca Roberts & Richard Garside (March 2005) Download document (Adobe PDF, 180KB) This document is available online only `Punishment before justice?' 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.

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