Blair's Laws: New Labour's Obsession with Creating Criminal Offences

by John Cooper and John Cooper

Book Overview

Since the Labour Government came to power in 1997 they have created over 3,000 new criminal offenses, one new offense for almost every day they have been in office. From the detention of terrorist suspects without trial to ASBOs, parenting orders to race crimes, the UK government's legislation has touched thousands of lives across the whole of British society. This unprecedented level of law-making has been consistently criticized as knee-jerk and...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199232415
• ISBN13: 9780199232413
• Release Date: November 2099
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 250 Pages
• Weight: 0.01 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.1" x 0.1" x 0.1"