Licence To Kill

For twenty-six years David Fraser served in what is now the National Probation Service, both in the field and as a senior probation officer. He worked in several busy Inner London court areas, as well as in different prisons in the capital and the south-west. He also worked for almost a decade as a Criminal Intelligence Analyst with the National Criminal Intelligence Service, (which is now the National Crime Agency). He has been researching and writing about crime and sentencing policy in England and Wales since the 1980s. He has lectured to a wide variety of audiences in Britain and New Zealand and has had numerous articles published in a variety of justice journals. The first of his three published books, A Land Fit for Criminals, was recommended for the George Orwell Prize in Literature. It provoked wide interest in this country and abroad and was commended to the House of Commons during a speech by an MP. He has given evidence to three All Party Parliamentary Committees investigating sentencing and prisons. Licence to Kill: Britain's Surrender to Violence is the result of six years of considered research and involvement with the criminal justice system. David Fraser is married with two grown-up children and two grandchildren and lives with his wife in the south-west of England.

• Foreword by Leo McKinstry; Acknowledgements; Author's Note; Introduction; The Story of Gabrielle Brown; Violent Britain; Britain's Response to Crime and Violence; The Meaning of Violence; Released to Kill, Maim and Rape Again; Black Cap to White Flag: Killing, Violence and the Demise of the Death Penalty131; A New Sentencing Code: Keeping Britain Safe; Epilogue; Selected Bibliography; Notes; Endnotes; Index;