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| The UK's first social impact bond has succeeded in reducing reoffending among offenders released from Peterborough Prison, according to results released today by the Ministry of Justice. | |
| Crime | Civil Society News - 7th August 2014 |
| Overall crime in England and Wales fell by 15% in 2013. The Crime Survey for England and Wales reported 7.5 million crimes against households and adults in that year, the lowest level since it began in 1981. Separate police figures showed a 2% fall in crime for 2013, with increases in areas such as fraud (25%) as well as a 17% rise in reported sex offences following the Jimmy Saville scandal. The report, published by the Office for National Statistics estimates crime level based on how many people say they have been crime victims. | |
| Crime | The Sentinel, April 25, 2014 |
| Nearly one in six prisoners released in error in the last four years are still at large. A total of 148 prisoners have been set free when they shouldn’t have been since May 2010 and 24 have not been returned to jail, figures released by Justice Minister Jeremy Wright showed. Most of them (13) were released from category C prisons, while three came from female prisons and eight remained ‘uncategorised’. | |
| Crime | The Sentinel, April 4, 2014 |
| Revelations of police corruption have damaged public confidence in the service and lowered the morale of the majority of serving officers, a report has concluded. Tom Winsor, the Chief Inspector of Constabulary, has released his first annual assessment of policing in England and Wales. After conducting an overview of policing for 2012/2013, he concluded that controversies and revelations of a negative nature had damaged the perception of the police. As a result, he said it was the responsibility of the leadership to ‘repair the damage which has been done’. In the result he says this will be achieved through a commitment to the highest standards of professional conduct and through the firm treatment of those found to have violated those standards. | |
| Crime | The Sentinel, April 1, 2014 |
| Tesco has deactivated some consumers’ net accounts after their login names and passwords were shared online. The list of more than 2,000 Tesco.com accounts was posted to a popular text-sharing site yesterday. The supermarket giant said the data had been compiled by the hackers using details stolen from other sites. Those affected said their login details were correct and one added the attackers had used them to steal store vouchers. Tesco said It was ‘urgently investigating’ the appearance of the data. | |
| Crime | The Sentinel, February 14, 2014 |
| Murderers who commit the most ‘heinous’ of crimes can be sent to prison for the rest of their lives, leading judges have ruled. Backing the use of ‘life-means-life’ orders, a panel of five judges at the Court of Appeal increased the ‘unduly lenient’ 40-year minimum being served by killer Ian McLoughlin, who murdered a man while on day release, to a whole-life term. And they dismissed a challenge by Lee Newell, who murdered a child killer while in prison, against an order imposed in his case that he can never be released. The guidance from the appeal judges come in the wake of a decision by the European Court of Human Rights last year in an appeal by three murderers. | |
| Crime | The Sentinel, February 19, 2014 |
| David Cameron has said ‘Life should mean life’ as the government considers the US-style 100-year prison sentences for murderers and serious offenders as an alternative to ‘whole-life’ sentences. The government is looking at the plan after a European court ruled in 2013 that such sentences breached the European Convention on Human Rights. | |
| Crime | The Sentinel, January 3, 2014 |
| More than half of anti-social behaviour orders (Asbos) issued in the last 12 years have been breached at least once, fresh figures revealed. Of the 22,974 Asbos issued between June 1 2000 and December 31 2012, 58%, or 13,295, have been breached once, Home Office statistics showed. Of these, 9,992 – or 43% of all Asbos issued – have been breached more than once. And on average if an Asbo is breached, it is breached five times, the data reveals. Asbos are to be replaced by new measures introduced in the Government’s Anti-social Behaviour Bill. | |
| Crime | The Sentinel, November 1, 2013 |
| Benefit cheats will face increased jail terms of up to 10 years in a crackdown on those who ‘flout the system’, Britain’s most senior prosecutor has said. Keir Starmer QC warned it was time for a ‘tough stance’ against the perpetrators of benefit and tax credit fraud as he set out new guidelines for the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS). The Director of Public Prosecutions said the £1.9 billion annual cost of the crime to the taxpayer should be at the ‘forefront of lawyers’ minds’ when considering whether a prosecution was in the public interest. Suspects can now be charged under the Fraud Act, which carries a maximum sentence of 10 years in prison, the CPS said. In the past, benefit cheats have often been pursued under specific social security legislation which carries a maximum term of seven years. | |
| Crime | The Sentinel, September 17th, 2013 |
| The number of stop-and-search incidents that lead to arrest are “far too low for comfort”, the Home Secretary said, as she launched a fresh public consultation into the controversial powers. Theresa May told the House of Commons that more that one million stop-and-searches are recorded every year but on average only about nine per cent of the incidents result in an arrest. In addition, Mrs May said statistics show that people from black or ethnic minority backgrounds are up to seven times more likely to be stopped and searched by the police than if they are white. | |
| Crime | The Sentinel – July 3, 2013 |
| Burglary and robbery are going out of fashion as criminals turn to online fraud and other cyber crimes. Crime fell by 9 per cent last year, reaching the lowest level since records began in 1981 official figures released yesterday show. Police welcomed sharp declines in burglary, robbery, violent attacks and car crime - but the Office for National Statistics data exposed soaring online crime, such as credit card fraud, bogus online auctions and online dating fraud. It raises fears official data may not show the true scale of offences because people who are caught by an online swindle often do not bother to make a report. There was a 27 per cent rise in fraud offences last year, which may be partly thanks to a new centralised reporting service, Action Fraud. | |
| Crime | Daily Mail 19.07.13 |
| Low-level criminals who spend a few weeks or months in prison will be supervised for a year in the community after their release in an attempt to cut "shameful levels" of re-offending, the Justice Secretary will announce today. Every prisoner will have to complete a year-long period of supervision that will see them returned to jail if they misbehave, under laws to toughen up the probation regime. | |
| Crime | Daily Telegraph 09.05.2013 |
| The head of the Church of England has said some gay couples have loving and monogamous relationships of ‘stunning quality’ – and he believes a woman will one day be made an archbishop. The Most Reverend Justin Welby said he backed traditional Church teaching on homosexuality but said: “You see gay relationships that are just stunning in the quality of the relationship.” | |
| Crime | The Sentinel, March 22, 2013 |
| Police officers investigating phone hacking viewed the inquiry as “a bit of a jolly” and were excited about meeting celebrities, a senior detective claimed yesterday. Detective Chief Inspector April Casburn told Southwark Crown Court that she feared her colleagues thought the investigation would be “a bit of fun”. She is accused of one count of misconduct in public office for allegedly offering information to the News of the World (NOTW) in September 2010, when she was working in counter-terrorism managing the National Terrorist Financial Investigation Unit. The 53-year-old admits making the phone call to the NOTW, but denies misconduct, asking for money and offering information that was not already in the public domain. | |
| Crime | The Sentinel, January 9, 2013 |
| Britain is losing the war on cyber crime, a leading police officer has admitted, with the economy losing an estimated £35 billion every year to internet fraudsters. Commissioner Adrian Leppard, head of City of London Police, said online fraud was rising "exponentially", with the largest number of attacks originating from Eastern Europe and Russia. In a stark warning to MPs earlier this month, he said police were struggling to keep up with increasingly sophisticated internet criminals. Mr Leppard said half of all fraud in Britain, which costs the country £70 billion a year, is conducted online. | |
| Crime | The Daily Telegraph Dec 31 2012 |
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