This publication from the Crime and Society Foundation is made up of a collection of essays examining what impact, if any, criminal justice agencies have on crime levels. While offering distinctive perspectives and proposals, the seven authors, who include politicians, opinion formers, campaigners and academics, are agreed that an effective approach to crime reduction must look beyond the criminal justice system, to the wider social and economic policies that lie behind crime trends.The leading article argues that because the criminal justice system only resolves a tiny fraction of the offences that are committed, it is largely irrelevant as a means of controlling crime. This means that attempts to improve the functioning of the system, including the kind of crisis management measures recently announced under the Government’s `Operation Safeguard’, can only have a marginal impact on crime rates.
LOCAL AUTHORITIES GET FUNDS TO PILOT ROAD PRICING SCHEMES
Nine English areas are to share seven-and-a-half million pounds to help develop innovative ways to tackle local traffic congestion and to play a part in informing the debate on a national road pricing scheme. The money is from the second round of an 18 million pound fund, set up in July last year for pump-priming in advance of the Transport Innovation.
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SURVEY AND NEW WEBSITE HIGHLIGHT DEPENDENCY ISSUES
More than three quarters of people being treated for drug and alcohol dependency took drugs for the first time before they were sixteen. A new survey today shows that 39 per cent of those being treated by Phoenix Futures first took a drug under the age of 13, that is almost four times higher than was the case a decade ago.
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