In this issue
No. 154 December 1985

LettersUpdate

Blind Justice
Amanda Root looks at our fears of rising crime and argues that the proposed solutions to the problem will harm the law-abiding more than they will penalise the law-breaking.

Rising crime - the facts

The Rambo spirit
Most of us harbour fantasies of taking the law into our own hands. Richard Kazis looks at the men who do this and describes why their violence is so appealing.

Disappearing desperados
Street crime has virtually disappeared in Cuba, Noll Scott looks at a socialist success story.

Ill-gotten gains
The largest category of crime is 'white-collar', yet we don't feel anxious about it. Peter Grabosky explains why.

You are the judge
Pass sentence on a young shoplifter - by weighing up individual responsibility against the pull of deprivation.

Honest villainy
Laurie Taylor talks to the aristocrats of the underworld

Confessions of a football hooligan
Former boot-boy turned journalist Danny Kelly confesses his violent past.

World within worlds
Ex-con Chris Tchaikovsky describes why prisons do more harm than good.

Changing
Lee Walters and Marco Antonio Vanucchi talk about their different experience of crime and imprisonment.

Pot-shot justice
Trish Elliott explains how Canada's native peoples are unfairly treated by the law.

Ideas for action, and Worth Reading on... Crime

BooksCountry profile: Equatorial GuineaCover Photo: Hector Cattolica