The problem with policing isn’t just funding – it’s priorities
I’m always fascinated when I watch a modern crime drama by the clever ways in which forensic crime scene investigation can bring people to justice. The technology has progressed so…
Here’s why David Cameron should do community service
By Stuart Roger Phew! Thank God that’s over. 100 hours of community service for disrupting a speech David Cameron was giving in Scotland, as an act of protest against his…
Comprehending crime: understanding Utøya
“Society needs to condemn a little more and understand a little less.” So said John Major. It is possibly the best ever summary of the right's intentionally ignorant approach to…
Bring back national service!
Having recently read Will Self’s light-hearted call for a return to the draft, I would like to suggest a modest proposal of my own for a new British levee en…
Why CCTV is not the answer to sexual assault.
By Naomi Beecroft I’ve heard a lot of talk about CCTV recently, and this really worries me. It more than worries me, it disturbs me. I am genuinely pleased to…
A more civilised kind of politics is not ‘from another planet’
I had forgotten how civilised Scottish politics is. Last night, I was representing the Greens at the Edinburgh University Students' Association hustings. Three years ago I stood on the same…
Let’s have some crime denialism
The ever interesting Sunny Hundal points out on CiF today that the BBC gave yet more air time to climate change denial on Newsnight last night. What the mainstream media…
Soft on crime, soft on the causes of crime
So, the Tories are talking about bringing back prison boats. According to the BBC website, 'A Conservative spokesman said: "it is something we are considering as a way of ending…