crime and justice Articles

Police forces across the country work hard, delivering community safety and working with residents to problem solve and cut crime Policing can only be based on partnership. 'The police are the public and the public are the police' is the most quoted of the Peelian...

Sadiq Khan announced this week that Labour will seek to shift power back to British courts after a period of perceived deference to the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg. He also mounted a vigorous defence of the European Convention on Human Rights and the...

Scratch beneath the surface in any case of child abuse and you are likely to find an inequality of power between the perpetrator and the victim. That was the situation in many of the scandals that have rocked care homes, schools and churches. And, it seems, that was...

The justice secretary says he is outraged that terrorists and child sex abusers are released halfway through their sentences regardless of whether they have changed their attitudes or behaviour. We should all be outraged with him. It is outrageous too, that, until...