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The Modern Bounty Hunter
Bounty hunters apprehend many more fugitives than the police As the English and Welsh probation service is currently being privatised via the Government’s Transforming Rehabilitation initiative, here...
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How much crime do we solve?
Crime outcomes The Home Office recently (26 February 2015) published revised statistics about Crime Outcomes in England and Wales. Crime outcomes is the new jargon for detection rates. There were six...
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Hi-Tech investigations This post is about the latest development in the law-enforcement v criminals high-tech arms race with cops and robbers adapting new digital techniques to outwit each other. New...
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Recorded drug offences down 11%
Latest recorded crime figures The latest Office for National Statistics bulletin on crime in England and Wales covers crime in the calendar year 2014 and was published on 23 April 2015. For this post,...
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Lowest number of offenders since records began
Activity in the Criminal Justice System in 2014 We know that crime rates have been falling steadily over the last 20 years but what about other trends in the criminal justice system. The MoJ has just...
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PCCs spotlight better mental health practice
Police and Crime Commissioners drive improvements in mental health The Revolving Doors Agency has just (14 May 2015) published the second in its series of briefings spotlighting promising work...
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Justice system still lets down victims of disability hate crime
Little progress There has been little progress in improving the response of the police, probation and Crown Prosecution services to disability hate crime. That is the core finding of a recent (21 May...
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Police don’t understand the impact of cuts
Financial sustainability of police forces in England & Wales £2.3 billion was cut from police budgets in the five years since 2010/11 – a reduction of between 12% and 23% for individual police...
View ArticleA victim’s guide to restorative justice
Great new resource The Restorative Justice Council recently (April 2015) uploaded a really helpful new resource. A victim’s guide to restorative justice is a new film for victims of crime explaining...
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Hate crime in Europe
Hate crime in the EU Following the recent depressing inspection report that found British criminal justice agencies are doing very little to tackle disability hate crime, I thought it might be...
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Why has crime fallen?
The Brennan Center for Justice This post summarises a recent landmark report by the Brennan Center for Justice (which is based at New York University School of Law): What caused the crime decline? The...
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Property crime takes its toll
The regressive impact of property crime David Lammy, the MP for Tottenham (@DavidLammy on Twitter) recently (3 March 2015) authored a provocative report on property crime published by the Policy...
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Just how many people do US police shoot dead?
Police shootings across the world After all the recent coverage of white police officers killing black suspects in the USA, you might be interested to know just how common fatal shootings by police are...
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How often do police user tasers?
Police use of tasers We can be rightly proud of the very low number of police shootings in England compared to most other countries. In recent years, the taser has become a key element in the way...
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What do the police do?
First analysis of national demand on policing published A recent report by the National Audit Office found that the Home Office did not have sufficient information to understand the impact of the...
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Our police service keeps shrinking
Fewer police officers… The latest police workforce figures for England and Wales (covering the year to 31 March 2015) show that, for the fifth year running, there were fewer police officers than the...
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How good are we at solving crime?
Crime outcomes The Home Office recently (9 September 2015) published the first bulletin on crime outcomes since the new framework was introduced to stop police recording inconsistencies. (Crime...
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The challenge of policing London in 2020
Policing a global city in 2020 A major new report on the future policing of London was published earlier this month (15 October 2015): Safer Together: Policing a global city in 2020. The RSA was...
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How to police London in 2020
Policing a global city in 2020 A major new report on the future policing of London was published earlier this month (15 October 2015): Safer Together: Policing a global city in 2020. The RSA was...
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Details of review into deaths in police custody
Independent review into deaths and serious incidents in police custody The Home Secretary, Theresa May, announced the terms of reference of the independent review into deaths and serious incidents in...
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