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David Cameron tries being ‘cruel to be kind’
It 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
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Comment: Boris Johnson and youth violence in London
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 in
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Contract killers as young as 15 recruited to do drug syndicates’ dirty work
So, Santre Sanchez Gayle sold his freedom for £10 a year for the next 20 years and won the dubious reputation of being a contract killer at 15. Shocking though it is that his hirers could use one so young to commit a cold blooded murder on their behalf, it was surely a matter of
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