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Nelson Mandela visited Leeds in April 2001 and was made a Freeman of the city. In his acceptance speech he said he did not deserve it as he was ‘a foreigner, an old age pensioner and someone who had a criminal record’. The good burghers of Leeds enjoyed the joke. For many people, however, the existence of a criminal record hanging round their neck is anything but a joke.
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Thomas, T. (2007). Conclusions. In: Criminal Records. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230592223_9
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