Six in 10 career criminals are avoiding prison despite figures showing serial offending has soared in Britain.
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Telegraph on 8th Feb 2010 (via telegraph.co.uk)
The BBC is reporting some new tech research: Computer criminals could soon be eavesdropping on what you type by analysing the electromagnetic signals produced by every key press. Computer criminals? I assume they mistyped GCHQ?
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LPUK on 22nd Oct 2008 (via lpuk.blogspot.com)
I have to agree with Annabel Goldie that having people commit crimes that result in judges wanting to send these criminals to jail but there being no space is unsustainable. Something has to give. Money is tight and building new prisons would take time. What if we brought in a policy of sending criminals to foreign jails and paying other countries to house them for us? I'm not talking about a...
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SNPTacticalVoting on 30th Sep 2008 (via snptacticalvoting.blogspot.com)
Louise Casey, the Anti-social Behaviour ‘Tsar’, has made a very important point this Boxing Day. Police, and the corrupt law and justice system, put criminals first. They don’t really care about the victims. What kind of society have we become when victims of crime are relegated because of an obsession with the criminals perceived rights. We would have
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TheWiltedRose on 26th Dec 2008 (via thewiltedrose.wordpress.com)
Apparently, this practice of making criminals wear clothing that declares that they are criminals is hurting their poor wee souls. Criminals wearing orange jackets while working in the community have been abused and jeered at by members of the public, according to study by leaders of the probation officers. Good. Since ASBOs and tags have apparently become status symbols amongst the varied and ass...
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TheDevilsKitchen on 30th Dec 2008 (via devilskitchen.me.uk)
Exclusive: The number of cautions being given to violent criminals has risen by 82 per cent in just five years.
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Telegraph on 21st Jan 2009 (via telegraph.co.uk)
Most criminals should be spared jail with prison reserved for only the most serious offenders the Liberal Democrats have said.
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Telegraph on 16th Sep 2008 (via telegraph.co.uk)
This is Peter Hitchens' Mail on Sunday columnIf we can’t make criminals fear the law, then we will have to live in fear of criminals. It is that simple. When I first warned of this some years back, it was...
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PeterHitchens on 7th Mar 2009 (via hitchensblog.mailonsunday.co.uk)
Mark Mardell over at the BBC has a closer look at Transform's cost-benefit analysis of legalising/regulating drugs and the Home Office's turgid response: Today's Home Office statement offers another reason for not considering the legalisation/regulation model: "The legalisation of drugs would not eliminate the crime committed by organised career criminals; such criminals would simpl...
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Mark Wadsworth on 9th Apr 2009 (via markwadsworth.blogspot.com)
The inconvenient but obvious truth is that community sentences do not protect the public as effectively as prison does says Alasdair Palmer.
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Telegraph on 22nd Aug 2009 (via telegraph.co.uk)
This BBC clip of a couple of criminals, handcuffed together, making a run for from a New Zealand courtroom showed just how stupid criminals can be.
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NorfolkBlogger on 1st Feb 2009 (via norfolkblogger.blogspot.com)