The consequences of a political stampede on anti-social behaviour

The Guardian has a front page story today based on an ICM poll of voting intentions that the Conservative lead is down to 9 points over Labour. So the outcome of the general election is looking a lot less certain than in recent months. We could have a hung parliament, or a slim Labour lead [...]

December 15, 2009  Tags: , ,   Posted in: Government policy, Sentencing, Women in custody, anti-social behaviour  2 Comments

Another Queen’s Speech another criminal justice bill

For one final time before an election in 2010 the government delivered their legislative agenda in the form of the Queen’s Speech and just like every other before it, the text made reference to yet another piece of justice legislation to clamp down on anti-social behaviour. The proposed Crime and Security Bill will widen the [...]

November 18, 2009  Tags: , , ,   Posted in: Government policy, Inside prisons, Prisons  One Comment

Headline grabbing

Chris Grayling, the shadow home secretary, has been busy.В  Today he is talking about extradition laws and the papers this morning are reporting his idea that the police should take mobile phones from young people as a punishment.В  I support his scepticism about the effectiveness of anti-social behaviour orders but am concerned that people invent [...]

July 15, 2009  Tags: , , ,   Posted in: Headline grabbing  One Comment