Peter Hitchens argues that the time has come to re-examine the criminal justice system root and branch - to cope with rising levels of violent crime, and to restore public faith in society's ability to defend itself. Whatever you think of the solutions Hitchens suggests to this problem, you can be sure that they will excite controversy.
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Now he has marshalled his broader thoughts about crime and punishment. They are equally robust. Hitchens lives not far from me in Oxford, a beautiful, enriching city largely at peace with itself, blessed with a low crime rate, where ancient traditions of debate and learning adapt themselves to the needs of a new century. To Hitchens, however, it is but one hellish corner of a violent, anarchic dystopia. The all-powerful 'liberal elite' - more or less everyone who disagrees with Peter Hitchens - 'have captured the machinery of government and the great bulk of the media and educational system'.
Our 'refusal to put things right' means 'the slide into disorder will soon become unstoppable, as the last vestiges of authority and obedience disappear from the streets and the unpoliced countryside'. As crime rises to ever-higher levels, the infection of political correctness has all but destroyed the ability of the police to contain it, Hitchens says. Let us cast out these liberal, educated, chief constables, and with them, those regrettable laws which restrain bobbies from feeling collars, such as the Police and Criminal Evidence Act which was passed by a Tory government.
The prisons, now hopelessly soft, must be reformed, so that once again 'the convicted criminal should suffer for his crime, and be known to suffer', and every inmate 'longs for release'. Naturally, the death penalty must be restored. The liberal elite's failure to tackle crime has already cost the English Scotland, Hitchens says, does not concern him their historic right to bear arms. Unless we take appropriate coercive steps against the criminal minority forthwith, the rest of us are bound to lose further cherished freedoms shortly.
This is, of course, an utterly extremist tract. Hitchens' idea of Britain is a bit like the vision John Major once mapped out in his old maids on bicycles, cricket and warm beer speech, except with ravening criminals lurking in the slips: yearning for a past which never existed, fear and loathing for a warped and monstrous present.
Yet it is being taken seriously; last week, for example, he was on Radio 4's book-plugger's flagship, Start the Week.
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