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Books

Criminal Law and Decency

Dick Hamilton reviews two books on justice and decency.

“The first time I sent someone to prison,” said Derek Spencer QC, the new Solicitor-General, in a recent interview, “It was rather like shooting him dead. I had the impression of looking down a gun barrel at him. Taking someone’s liberty away – even though I’ve sent people to prison since, doesn’t come easy to me; quite frankly. I have to summon up all my nerve to do it.”

He sounds a decent chap, and would probably endorse much of a recent paperback, Andrew Rutherford’s Criminal Justice and the Pursuit of Decency.

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