Putting victims first: Most effective responses to Anti-Social Behaviour - May 2012
Criminal behaviour orders are set to replace antisocial behaviour orders (Asbos), under government plans to tackle crime and nuisance behaviour as documented in a government white paper. Click here for report.
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Crime in England and Wales, Quarterly First Release to December 2011
The latest figures from the Crime Survey for England and Wales (CSEW; formerly known as the British Crime Survey) show no statistically significant change in overall crime while the number of crimes recorded by the police fell by 3 per cent in the year ending December 2011 compared with the same period in 2010. These findings continue recent trends with CSEW crime remaining fairly flat since 2004/05 and recorded crime showing small year on year reductions. Click here for report.
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5 Days in August
Following the riots that occurred in towns and cities across England between 6 and 10 August 2011, the Prime Minister, Deputy Prime Minister and Leader of the Official Opposition established the Riots Communities and Victims Panel and asked it to consider:
-what may have motivated this small minority of people to take part in the riots;
-why the riots happened in some areas and not others;
-how key public services engaged with communities before, during and after the riots;
-what motivated local people to come together to resist riots in their area or to clean up after riots had taken place;
-how communities can be made more socially and economically resilient in the future, in order to prevent future problems; and
-what could have been done differently to prevent or manage the riots.
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“They never give up on you”
This report is the result of the first formal Inquiry by a Children’s Commissioner for England using powers in the Children Act 2004. It follows eight months of work by a small team looking at school exclusions in the UK.
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All Party Parliamentary Group on Women in the Penal System
In October 2011, the All Party Parliamentary Group on Women in the Penal System launched a year-long inquiry on girls.
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Evaluation of the London Youth Reducing Reoffending Programme (Deadalus)
The aim of this report is to produce an early thematic overview of the main findings of the evaluation of the LYRRP (Daedalus).
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The August riots in England - understanding the involvement of young people
The Cabinet Office published independent research which examines the motivations of young people involved in the August riots. The report is the first, and currently only, major study to be based on what young people themselves have to say about the riots.
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Ending gang and youth violence: cross-government report
Following the disorder in August across cities in England, the Prime Minister asked the Home Secretary to lead a review, alongside the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, into the growing problem of gangs and gang violence.
The report looks into the scale of the problem of gang and youth violence, analyses its causes, and identifies what can be done by government and other agencies to stop the violence and to turn around the lives of those involved.
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Tackling knives and serious youth violence programme guidance report
This report is a compilation of good practice examples and case studies from across the areas participating in the tackling knives and serious youth violence programme, during 2010-11.
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Gang and Group Offenders - A Practitioner’s Handbook of Ideas and Interventions
In November 2009 the Pathways Programme Board commissioned the Metropolitan Police Specialist Crime Directorate to produce a multi-agency handbook for managing gang and group offenders in London, on behalf of the London Criminal Justice Partnership. This handbook is now available for all agencies to use in their work with gang and group offenders.
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Keeping Every Child Safe - Gangs and Schools Toolkit
This toolkit aims to help schools to minimise the risk of gangs becoming a problem for pupils and staff and to take appropriate action to address any issues that do arise.
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Safeguarding children affected by gang activity
This procedure provides guidance for frontline professionals and their managers in all agencies, and individuals in London’s local communities and community groups on identifying and safeguarding children who are vulnerable to or at risk from involvement in or targeting from:
• Emergent criminality, serious youth violence perpetrated by their peers in gangs, or increasing anti-social behaviour; and
• Serious youth violence perpetrated by children acting on their own.
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The management of gang issues among children and young people in prison custody and the community: A joint thematic review.
This thematic review was a joint exercise conducted by HM Inspectorates of Prisons, Probation and Constabulary to examine the management of children and young people (aged under 18) with gang affiliations and gang-related offending, both in custody and in the community.
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Gangs at the Grassroots: Community solutions to street violence
A new report warns the Government to avoid using centralised policies to tackle gang violence and knife crime. It argues that a focus on Whitehall-driven targets does not take into account the diverse nature of many gangs and that local areas should be able to introduce interventions based on local factors.
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Time for Action - Equipping Young People for the Future and Preventing Violence
Time for Action, published in November 2008, set out the Mayor’s vision for a programme of action for Equipping Young People for the Future and Preventing Violence. The proposals were intended to complement work being done by other agencies, in particular London boroughs that have lead responsibilities for children’s services, and to focus on the value the Mayor can add on these issues.
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Dying to Belong - An In-depth Review of Street Gangs in Britain
This report analyses the true nature and scale of gang culture in Britain; who is involved and what they are involved in; how Britain has reached this point;and what society can do to tackle it.
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ROTA (March 2011) The Female Voice in Violence Project. Final report: This is it. This is my life…
The final report into the impact of serious youth violence and criminal gangs on women and girls across the country was launched on 22nd March 2011.
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