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...
Policing and diversity
Diversity in the police was again in the news recently following comments by Irene Curtis, the new P...
Young people: over-policed and under-protected
The current generation of young people is taking the brunt of the recession with all its devastating...
Police morale is a real issue
The results of a survey of officers in Avon and Somerset, reported in yesterday’s Daily Telegr...