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THEMED SECTION: PERSPECTIVES FROM NORTH AMERICA

Zero tolerance of zero tolerance

Maurice Punch offers a personal view of ‘zero tolerance’, suggesting that it is a vacuous sound-bite that can seriously distort policing

Pages 45-46 | Published online: 07 Apr 2011

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