You are browsing the Blog for crime.
Paris Brown: sending up a gimmick?
Share/Bookmark On 8 April 2013 the Evening standard carried a story about Paris Brown who having been appointed as a youth police commissioner by Kent Police and Crime Commissioner, Ann Barnes, one week earlier at a cost to the taxpayer of £15,000 a year was found have posted homophobic and racist tweets prior to her
...read more...
David Cameron tries being ‘cruel to be kind’
Share/BookmarkIt was truly stomach churning to hear David Cameron on Monday 22 October 2012 unctuously setting out his government’s revised law and order agenda for dealing with the presence of knives and guns on our streets, punishing and rehabilitating offenders and giving private contractors outcomes related incentives for reducing offending. This was the same David
...read more...
Should families take the blame for youth crime?
Share/BookmarkOn the eve of a conference organised by the Seventh Day Adventist Church into parenting and last summer’s riots, the Lambeth Weekender asked professor Gus John: are families to blame for what children do? Lambeth Weekender: What impact did parenting have on the 2011 England riots? Professor Gus John: This is a very broad and
...read more...
Mending Broken Britain? Education’s Response
Share/BookmarkLast February, Professor Gus John delivered a keynote address at the “Mending Broken Britain? Education’s Response” Conference, which was organised by Curriculum Enrichment for the Common Era (CE4CE) and sponsored by Birmingham City University. Against the background of the riots that spread across Britain in August 2011, this national conference aimed to unpick something of the complex
...read more...
Comment: Boris Johnson and youth violence in London
Share/Bookmark On April 23rd, The Guardian published an article entitled “Boris Johnson ‘has done virtually nothing to tackle youth violence’“. Professor Gus John commented on the news story, saying: Ron Belgrave is finally lifting the lid on the sham that passed as Boris Johnson’s engagement with the issue of serious youth violence in London and
...read more...
