<P> New Labour tended to emphasise social justice, rather than the equality which was the focus of previous Labour governments and challenged the view that social justice and economic efficiency are mutually exclusive . The party's traditional attachment to equality was reduced as minimum standards and equality of opportunity were promoted over the equality of outcome . The Commission on Social Justice, set up by John Smith, reported in 1994 that the values of social justice were equal worth of citizens, equal rights to be able to meet their basic needs, the requirement to spread opportunities as much as possible and the need to remove unjustified inequalities . The party viewed social justice primarily as the requirement to give citizens equal political and economic liberty and also as the need for social citizenship . It encompasses the need for equal distribution of opportunity, with the caveat that things should not be taken from successful people to give to the unsuccessful . </P> <P> New Labour accepted the economic efficiency of free markets and believed that they could be detached from capitalism to achieve the aims of socialism while maintaining the efficiency of capitalism . Markets were also useful for giving power to consumers and allowing citizens to make their own decisions and act responsibly . New Labour embraced market economics because they believed they could be used for their social aims as well as economic efficiency . The party did not believe that public ownership was efficient or desirable, ensuring that they were not seen to be ideologically pursuing centralised public ownership was important to the party . In government, the party relied on public - private partnerships and private finance initiatives to raise funds and mitigate fears of a "tax and spend" policy or excessive borrowing . </P> <P> Welfare reforms proposed by New Labour in their 2001 manifesto included Working Families Tax Credit, the National Childcare Strategy and the National Minimum Wage . Writing in Capital & Class, Chris Grover argued that these policies were aimed at promoting work, and that this position dominated New Labour's position on welfare . He considered the view that New Labour's welfare reforms were "workfarist" and argued that in this context it must refer to social policy being put in line with free market economic growth . Gower proposed that under New Labour this position was consolidated through schemes to encourage work . </P> <P> Parts of New Labour's political philosophy linked crime with social exclusion and pursued policies to encourage partnerships between social and police authorities to lower crime rates whereas other areas of New Labour's policy maintained a traditional approach to crime . The prison population in 2005 rose to over 76,000, mostly owing to the increasing length of sentences . Following the September 11 attacks, the Labour government attempted to emphasise counter-terrorism measures . From 2002, the government followed policies aimed at reducing anti-social behaviour; in the 1998 Crime and Disorder Act, Labour introduced Anti-Social Behaviour Orders (ASBOs). </P>

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