Police body worn cameras – let’s tread carefully
David Davis’ article in yesterday’s Times has kicked off a debate about the potential to...
Domestic Violence Inspection: Blinkered but not quite blind?
On 6th September the Home Secretary, Theresa May, asked Her Majesty’s Inspectorate of Constabu...
PCCs’ election spending
Earlier this week the Electoral Commission released information on the money spent by Police and Cri...
Cyber-bullying: getting our priorities right
“It was like she’d hit someone, but in a different way”. (Girl aged 15 on witnessi...
E-crime: the new ‘genie’ on the block
The biggest genie of them all has finally been let out of the bottle. The House of Commons Home Affa...
Is crime really going down?
The latest crime statistics show that crime, as measured by the Crime Survey for England and Wales (...
Section 136 and the use of police cells
In an interview with the Today Programme last week, a young woman described her experience of being ...
To stop or not to stop
The Equality and Human Rights Commission has just published its report, Stop and Think Again, on its...
What’s happening to crime?
Crime’s still going down and criminologists are puzzled. The latest criminal statistics showed...
It’s the economy, stupid! Why crime isn’t at the top of people’s ‘worry list’
During 2007, more people polled by Ipsos MORI identified crime as one of the most important issues f...
Measuring peace
Yesterday witnessed the launch of the UK Peace Index, which offers an analysis of the levels of peac...
Direct entry: don’t throw the baby out with the bath water
With the Home Office consultation having closed at the end of March, work is now presumably underway...