New Labour and criminal justice: Reflections on a wasteland of missed opportunity

Probation Journal

Volumn 57, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 281-285

  Vanstone, Maurice ^a  

^a SWANSEA UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

crime; criminal justice; New Labour; politics; populism; rehabilitation

Indexed keywords

EID: 84996262299     PISSN: 02645505     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0264550510373810     Document Type: Article

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