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The politics of law and order played only a modest role in the British General Election of 2001. But that role was shaped by a near consensus between New Labour and Conservative agendas for more punitive policies towards persistent offenders and the rediscovery of the criminal rather than the crime as the rationale for sentencing policy. The article explores the background and character of this climax to a decade of realignment.
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