Government crime policy and moral contamination

Abstract

We live in a contaminated moral environment. (Vaclav Havel, 1 January 1990)

Acknowledgements

This article is based on a longer essay Reece Walter's has written in the forthcoming Critical thinking about the uses of research, a monograph produced as part of the Centre for Crime and Justice Studies Evidence Based Policy series. www.crimeandjustice.org. uk/harmandsocproject.html

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Reece Walters

Professor of Criminology at the Open University