Three in four child criminals commit new offences within a year of leaving custody, figures show.

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...

Child killer Mary Bell has become a grandmother aged 51.

Members of the public will soon be able to type their postcode into a criminal justice website and find out who the convicted criminals are in their neighbourhood, the home secretary indicated yesterday. Jacqui Smith said the government was "working in the direction" of ensuring that every court in England and Wales would be able to put the outcome of their cases into the public domain to let peop...

Organised criminals who use legitimate businesses as a front could be prevented from winning public contracts under proposals revealed today.

The cases of a rapist and a drug-drive killer have once again put human rights under the spotlight.

The Internet Watch Foundation (IWF) blocked a Wikipedia Page for containing an alleged “potentially illegal indecent image of a child under the age of 18? on the album cover of the Virgin Killer album. After a highly public rumpus, the IWF has backed down and removed its block on the particular image and web page. This raises a whole series of issues about the integrity, transparency of the ...

In its awful way, it had all the ingredients of the classic media murder story: the beautiful blonde victim, the lyrical summer setting, the child witness, the murderous stranger at large - and all taking place in Greater London. Inevitably, the police were under enormous and immediate pressure to capture the killer of someone whose face smiled out of the front pages of every newspaper. "Someone o...

The family of a former public schoolboy gunned down in a pub have been refused in their request to find out if his killer was in the country legally - to protect his privacy.

It is being speculated that lawyers acting for the mother who was convicted along with her partner and lodger, of beating her 17 month old baby to death, will use human rights legislation to get their client a new identity and lifelong protection. This could cost the British taxpayer £££ millions. This killer mother has not yet been sentenced but I fail to see why the...