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Arresting Statistics: The Drift to Informal Justice in England and Wales.

This paper re-examines some of the current theoretical models and paradigms of criminal justice in England and Wales based on an analysis of national arrest statistics between 1981 and 1997. The data show that there has been a large increase in the number of arrests in the period but the number of p...

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Published in:Journal of Law & Society Vol. 26; no. 4; pp. 502 - 523
Main Authors: Hillyard, Paddy, Gordon, David
Format: Article
Published: Wiley-Blackwell Dec99
Subjects:
Criminal justice system
Arrest
Statistics
Crime prevention
England
Wales
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