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The tough-on-crime turn in the UK

By Douglas A. Berman

Across the pond, the Prospect magazine has this long essay, titled Crime and punishment.  Here is the article's sub-heading: "Britain is locking up more people than ever?a policy that some say accounts for falling crime. But there may be other reasons for the drop in the crime rate. Are we imprisoning so many people because we have to, or because we want to?".  This is how is starts: There are around 82,000 people in prison in Britain.  Is that a lot or a little? How can we tell?  Compared to the 2.2m people languishing in US jails it doesn't sound all that many.  Britain's prisoners could fit into the new Wembley stadium with room to spare, although on the government's own projections, all 90,000 Wembley seats will be taken sometime around 2010...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on February 27, 2008 (boomark / email).