Judging by today's YouGov polls, the riots have pushed crime sharply up the national agenda: it now ranks second, behind only the economy. In all, almost half of Brits think crime is one of the top three issues facing the country, more than double the number who said so a fortnight ago. The effect has, unsurprisingly, been strongest in London, where around two-in-three now see crime as a majo...

Public confidence in the national crime statistics has never been high. Opinion polls repeatedly tell us that the public think crime has been rising remorselessly despite the fact that on the best measure that we have available - the British Crime Survey - it has fallen by more than a third since 1995. Indeed when Charles Clarke was home secretary he thought this lack of public trust had got so ba...

Half of criminals return to crime within a year of leaving prison, official figures have shown.

For years now, the general public has had an impression in Britain that crime was rising , despite government assurances that serious crime was falling - the figures said so. But Channel 4 News has revealed tonight that the public was right all along - the following is via Channel 4 news' Snowmail email service: "You thought knife crime and serious violent crime was on the increase? Channel 4...

More than half of the public have no confidence in the police to tackle crime a Home Office report has disclosed.

Commenting on today’s crime figures, Liberal Democrat Shadow Home Secretary, Chris Huhne said: "The public has lost faith in the crime figures. The Government tells them crime is falling but a rising number of people - now two thirds - think it is getting worse. If crime and the fear of crime are to be tackled, Labour and the Tories must stop posturing on penalties and start focusing on what...

I have today made a public appeal to the Leader of Lincolnshire County Council to show some political leadership in making public the findings of a review following a case of child abuse which resulted in a mother being sent to jail.

THE scale of public scepticism over Kenny MacAskill's plans to slash the prison population has been disclosed in a new survey that shows nearly half the public believe com

Police spend almost half their time on paperwork, in meetings and drinking tea instead of tackling crime and other incidents, figures show.

When it comes to crime, David Cameron is more concerned with headlines than policies. That's why he talks Britain down by deliberately misleading the public about crime figures even though his party has been censured by the Statistics Authority for doing this. The reality is the Conservatives have voted against Labour's measures to fight crime including opposing changes to the retention ...