Crime under COVID
Crime stats for year to March 21 significantly affected by COVID. Big decrease in theft offset by rises in fraud & computer misuse.
23rd July 2021
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Crime stats for year to March 21 significantly affected by COVID. Big decrease in theft offset by rises in fraud & computer misuse.
Revolving Doors report finds delivering tailored interventions that meet the health and human needs of young adults can turn young people’s lives around.
A criminal justice joint inspection says better assessment, treatment and support could help break the cycle affecting too many neurodivergent people.
HMI Constabulary call for radical action to tackle crime epidemic against women and girls
Black women with criminal records face harsher barriers to employment – report from Working Chance
The Sentencing Academy probes racial disparity in custodial sentencing over the last decade.
Charlotte Threipland of APPEAL questions the fairness of the single justice procedure used for more than half a million low level offences a year.
Children are over represented in statistics on crime and violence, both as victims and as perpetrators. To be able to charge them with criminal offences at 10 years is failing them before they have a chance.
Official figures for 2020 show prosecutions down 26% but out of court disposals up by 18% on 2019.
New analysis of police data revealing unnecessary arrests of women.
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Girls in the criminal justice system face a cliff-edge as they turn 18 as many services change or drop off all at once and leave young women vulnerable at a critical time in their lives.
