Bøker av Ted Moss

In this book we investigate which of the sentences available to the courts is the best at deterring offending, 'custody or community'? Is the solution to tackling crime and the causes of crime to continue locking-up people as we have done for years, at enormous cost to the taxpayer? Or is supervision in the community now the way forward?

The story centres on the murder of a young woman, Janet McMasters, in 1963 and Robert Kelly, the man who was hanged for her murder. Over two decades later the murder affects the lives of Andrew Myers and Jim Kelly, the hanged man's son. Jim Kelly, who was convinced his father was innocent and spent every spare moment trying to prove it, disappears in mysterious circumstances. Some years later, Andy's secure and predictable life changes in ways that he could never have imagined