Chris Daw QC was born in Milton Keynes in 1970 and went to a state comprehensive school and 6th Form College in the 1980s. After a brief period in management consultancy after A Levels he read law at Manchester University and went on to the Inns of Court School of Law, before being Called to the Bar in 1993 by The Honourable Society of Gray's Inn.
Since then, save for a short but successful sabbatical in the world of business, Chris has practised criminal law, first as a busy junior, and then as Queen's Counsel or "Silk". Chris has acted in some of the most serious and high profile criminal trials of recent years, including the fresh inquests and criminal trial arising out of the Hillsborough Stadium Disaster, the defence of former England football captain, John Terry, and countless cases of murder, serious fraud, money laundering, armed robbery and international drug trafficking.

Chris writes for various publications on criminal justice issues, including the Spectator and the Financial Times, and appears as an expert source on both BBC radio and television.

He is an active commentator on criminal justice issues on social media, including Twitter where he tweets as [...]

This is a book of Big Ideas and is not limited to England and the rest of the UK.

ForewordAuthor'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

AcknowledgementsBibliographyPermissions
Index