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| The 2001/02 British Crime Survey found 19% of domestic violence incidents involved male victims, with just under half of these being committed by a female abuser. Sadly the Church also, is not free of this evil. A questionnaire sent out to 1,000 laity and clergy by the Methodist Church recently, discovered from 17% of respondents had experienced domestic abuse, 13% several times and 4% frequently. | |
| Crime | Christianity - April 2005 |
| One in four teenage boys under the age of 17 can be categorised as a prolific or serious offender, Home Office figures released yesterday indicated. The 2003 Crime and Justice Survey estimated there were 3.8 million "active offenders" - or 10% of people in the 10-65 age group in England and Wales. | |
| Crime | The Independent – 26th January 2005 |
| Dutch doctors have reported 22 mercy killings of terminally ill babies in the Netherlands since 1997, a study has found. Prosecutors decided not to take any action.Earlier studies have found that around 10-20 children are euthanised per year in the Netherlands. | |
| Crime | The Independent On Sunday – 23rd January 2005 |
| The Catholic Association for Racial Justice has attacked the continuing discriminatory performance of a criminal justice system that sees blacks nine times more likely to be locked up than whites. The chair of CARJ Margaret Ann Fisken used Prisoners' Sunday last week to highlight new Home Office statistics that showed a 58% increase in the number of Afro-Caribbean prisoners in British jails. | |
| Crime | The Universe – 28th November 2004 |
| The United Nations has demanded urgent government action to reduce the numbers of vulnerable children behind bars in Britain. The UN's scathing critique of this country's failure to respect the human rights of young offenders follows the deaths of 27 children in custody since 1990, including two this year. About 2,700 people aged 10 to 17 are held in British jails, at an annual cost of £283m. | |
| Crime | The Independent – 29th November 2004 |
| Police chiefs have rejected the idea of official red light zones as a way of controlling the sex trade. And a report which has the backing of all 43 chief constables in England and Wales warns that police forces need to pay more attention to tackling prostitution..Today's report noted that the number of women cautioned for street prostitution had fallen from 3,323 in 1993, to 732 in 2001, while the number of girls aged under 18 cautioned fell from 296 to just six in the same period. | |
| Crime | The Sentinel – 10th December 2004 |
| The parents of young boys and girls who steal or vandalise property will be ordered to pay up to £5,000 to the victims, the Government said last night. Police investigate 4,000 incidents of law-breaking or serious antisocial behaviour by children up to the age of nine every year. But they are powerless to act against the culprits, or their parents, because the age of criminal responsibility in England and Wales is 10. | |
| Crime | The Independent – 8th December 2004 |
| Euthanasia and killings by abused partners could be down-graded to manslaughter under a wide-ranging review of the law on murder announced yesterday by the Home Office. | |
| Crime | The Independent – 28th October 2004 |
| The Government has stripped crooks of £235 million in the last three years under rules confiscating the proceeds of crime. 4068 confiscation orders have been issued since the introduction of the Proceeds of Crime Act. | |
| Crime | The Sentinel – 25th November 2004 |
| A case of identity theft is occurring every four minutes in the UK, according to research published today. After plans by the Home Office for ID cards were unveiled in Parliament, a survey by Capital One showed that 77% of people are concerned about identity theft and 22% would like some expert help to protect themselves from it. Identity fraud costs the UK more than £1.3 billion a year and projections suggest that by the end of 2004 there will be 130,000 cases - equating to one every four minutes. | |
| Crime | The Sentinel – 25th November 2004 |
| Police will be allowed to carry out random searches for knives on school premises under sweeping new powers to improve discipline announced yesterday. Heads will be able to invite the police into school unannounced to search pupils for weapons. | |
| Crime | The Independent – 19th November 2004 |
| The number of children in jail is to be cut by 10% after criticism over the incarceration of young offenders, the Government's Youth Justice Board said yesterday. Nearly 30 children aged between 10 and 17 have died in custody since 1990. A damning report by MPs said the £283m annual bill for jailing young people is largely wasted, with most committing more crimes after release. The board plans to reduce the number of jailed children in that age range from 2,700 to 2,420 by March 2007, "through additional and better delivered alternatives to custody". These will include greater use of electronic tagging, with youths offered education and therapy as an alternative to custody. | |
| Crime | The Independent – 4th November 2004 |
| The sanctity of the jury room could be breached for the first time in more than three centuries under government plans to consult the public on how to investigate allegations of juror misbehaviour. A change in the law would end the strict prohibition on jurors disclosing anything said in the privacy of the jury room. The consultation document, to be published next year, will look at ways of investigating juries alleged to have returned guilty verdicts on grounds of racial or other prejudice. | |
| Crime | The Independent – 14th December 2004 |
| Under 18's are to be banned from buying knives under plans announced by the Government today.The Home Office is also facing demands to bring in tougher punishments for knife crimes. Metropolitan Police commissioner Sir John Stevens this month said that people carrying knives "for the wrong reasons" should receive mandatory sentences of up to three years. | |
| Crime | Sentinel Sunday – 12th December 2004 |
| Suicide pacts arranged over the internet in which strangers agree to end their lives together could be increasing, a psychiatrist said yesterday. Suicide pacts happen about once a month in Britain and mostly involve people well known to one another, such as spouses who are childless. But a new phenomenon of "cybersuicide", in which people meet in certain internet chat rooms and discuss methods of suicide, is causing concern, according to Sundararajan Rajagopal, a consultant psychiatrist at the South London and Maudsley NHS Trust. | |
| Crime | The Independent – 3rd December 2004 |
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