Justice on Trial

Radical Solutions for a System at Breaking Point

Justice on Trial

Radical Solutions for a System at Breaking Point

Chris Daw (Author)

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'Chris is a powerful force for good in the national debate on criminal justice.' –The Secret Barrister

'Extraordinary' – Krishnan Guru-Murthy

Chris Daw QC has been practising criminal law for over 25 years, navigating Britain's fractured justice system from within. He has looked into the eyes of murderers, acted for notorious criminals, and listened to the tangled tales woven by fraudsters, money launderers and drug barons. Yet his work takes place at the heart of a system at breaking point – one which is failing perpetrators, victims and society – and now he is convinced that something must change.

Drawing on case histories and global reporting, and published with a new afterword on law in the global pandemic, Justice on Trial presents a radical set of solutions for crime and punishment. By turns shocking, moving and pragmatic, Daw's account offers rare inside access to a system in crisis and a roadmap to a future beyond the binary of good and evil.

Updated with a new afterword on law and the global pandemic.

Foreword
Author's Note

Introduction: A study in crime
1 A short history of crime and punishment
2 Why we should close all prisons
3 Why we should legalise all drugs
4 Why children are never criminals
5 Why people are neither good nor evil
The verdict
Epilogue: The Dark Web and the Internet of Crime
Afterword

Acknowledgements
Bibliography
Permissions
Index

Product details

Published	31 Aug 2021
Format	Paperback
Edition	1st
Extent	304
ISBN	9781472977854
Imprint	Bloomsbury Continuum
Dimensions	198 x 129 mm
Publisher	Bloomsbury Publishing

Author

Chris Daw

Chris Daw QC was born in Milton Keynes in 1970 and…

Chris is a powerful force for good in the national debate on criminal justice. You should all go out and buy his book.

The Secret Barrister
Fast-paced, engaging and littered with fascinating and often shocking real-life cases, Daw portrays a judicial system that's broken from the lowest courts to the toughest prisons in the land, suggesting solutions that are as provocative as they are persuasive.

Matthew Wright, Broadcaster
Extraordinary

Krishnan Guru-Murthy
A shocking, disturbing, revealing and enlightening examination of a deeply flawed criminal justice system by someone who's seen at first hand what the problems are, and more importantly, knows how they should be fixed.

Piers Morgan
A hard hitting, page turning account of the failures of our criminal justice system describing through some of the author's own cases not only how our system evolved but also why it fails to deliver to the public the protection they deserve.

Cherie Blair QC
A passionately written blueprint for resolving some perennial problems with our justice system ... A powerful case for reform.

Geoffrey Robertson QC