Has Crime Fallen Because Of Newlabour’S Criminal Justice Policy?”
“Has Crime Fallen Because of New Labour’s Criminal Justice Policy?”
There are controversial opinions as to whether crime has fallen due to the criminal
justice policy instigated by New Labour. The notion that crime has fallen has
emerged from examples such as statistical evidence. However, further scrutinising of
sources such as this, combined with the idea that certain aspects of crime are not
considered in certain surveys, provokes inevitable controversy. This analysis
explores the arguments both supporting and contradicting this statement.
Since 1981 the government has gathered crime statistics by the British Crime Survey
(BCS) which is a survey concerning crime victims of a certain 50,000 households
(Eades, Garside, Rutherford, Solomon, 2007, p.27). According to these statistics
there was a rise in crime from 1981 to 1995 followed by a decrease. In 1995 the BCS
figures indicated there were almost 20 million incidents,......
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