The author, a leading analyst of Penal policy, argues that the Government would do well to address itself to the extraordinary discrepancy between its policies on law and order on the one hand, where critical judgement is suspended in favour of devoting ever larger sums to be a lost cause, and its handling of health, education and welfare services and the public enterprises on the other, where any sense of purpose is subordinated to the criteria of productivity, the elimination of over-manning and waste, and privatisation.
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I am indebted to the May Committee for this companson — although the Committee wrongly calculated the ratio as only 20 times more school children — an understatement which might well help to explain their complacent conclusion.
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