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Professor Andrew Ashworth is the Vinerian Professor of English Law at the University of Oxford and a Fellow of All Souls College

Thieves and fraudsters should be spared jail, with prison sentences reserved for the most serious crimes, a legal expert has said
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Why we shouldn't jail thieves

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