As Kenan Malik concludes, the Imprisonment for Public Protection 'regime provides a morbid illustration of how the moralising of social problems can lead politicians to leverage cruelty as a social good'!
Malik argues (correctly to my mind) that the IPP punishment logic was (and is) indicative of how our political class see moral failings not social situations as the driver of behaviour... a morality that they see themselves as guardians of!
