Criminal Justice News
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Package in first stage of review will scrap £1,200 special priority payments and place two-year freeze on automatic promotionA major hurdle in a radical overhaul of police pay and conditions was cleared on Monday when the home secretary, Theresa May, announced she has accepted a compromise package [...]
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Afghan police say local militia member, who is still at large, killed the woman after she gave birth to a third daughterAn Afghan man killed his wife for giving birth to a third daughter rather than the son he hoped for, police in Afghanistan's northern Kunduz province have said.The victim, 28, know[...]
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Benefits cap concessions likelySign up to Society daily email briefingToday's top SocietyGuardian stories• Benefits cap concessions expected to win support for welfare reform bill
• Welfare reform bill: Liam Byrne's letter to Nick Clegg
• Labour MP backs smacking of children
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David Lammy has said that Labour's 2004 decision to tighten up the smacking laws should now be overhauled. He claims that if parents are given more licence to smack their children it could help prevent gang and knife crime. Do you believe it's OK to smack children?
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Dwindling numbers of traffic patrol officers could put lives at risk in the Westcountry, a road safety charity warns. Devon and Cornwall police has seen a 16 per cent drop in the number of specialist traffic officers in the force area over two years,
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'Stalking the stalkers' through a domestic violence register challenges the archaic notion love can be expressed in violenceA few days ago a young domestic violence victim showed me a picture of the man who beat her. He is advertising on an online dating website where he is described as "family frie[...]
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A specialist London police unit that fights wildlife crime is joining forces with an animal charity. The Metropolitan Police's Wildlife Crime Unit (WCU) is teaming up with the World Society for the Protection of Animals (WSPA), which warned that animal
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KINGSTON, Ontario – A jury on Sunday found an Afghan father, his wife and their son guilty of killing three teenage sisters and a co-wife in what the judge described as “cold-blooded, shameful murders” resulting from a “twisted concept of
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Alison Saunders says jurors arrive at court with preconceptions about women which affects how they consider evidenceThe demonisation of young women is contributing to the failure to secure more convictions of suspected rapists, one of the country's leading prosecutors warns on Monday.Some victims ar[...]
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Alison Saunders of the Crown Prosecution Service talks about the Lawrence case and why a debate on rape is neededAlison Saunders is probably the UK's most experienced criminal prosecutor. She has overseen the convictions of serial rapists and serial murderers – and, in one particularly horrendous [...]
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...court is that we saw filings from the Department of Social Services and petitions coming in where a baby had been...the court are the Chautauqua County Department of Social Services, Child Protective Services, the county Department...
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“People voted for the Muslim Brothers because of the good social work they did in the past. Now they will have to deal with the economy and lack of jobs. “In five years (at the next election) the people will judge them on what they achieved.
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KABUL: Recently, the Afghan Independent Human Rights Commission (AIHRC) office in Kudoz province reported the rescue of a young woman who had been imprisoned in her in-laws' dungeon for seven months.Fifteen-year-old Sahar Gul was forced to marry an older
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Courtney A. Bowman, daughter of Dale and Edith Bowman, of Granville, earned a master's degree in social work from the University of Kentucky in December. She is employed in her field at King's Daughters Hospital in Ashland, Ky.
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After a newspaper campaign, actor-filmmaker Farhan Akhtar will be the likely face of Delhi Police for an audio-visual advertisement to educate people about crime against women. 38-year-old Akhtar, who directed the recently released Bollywood movie 'Don
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New Delhi: After a newspaper campaign, actor-filmmaker Farhan Akhtar will be the likely face of Delhi Police for an audio-visual advertisement to educate people about crime against women. 38-year-old Akhtar, who directed the recently released Bollywood
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WASHINGTON, Jan. 29 (UPI) -- Despite some expectation the president would indicate softness on healthcare reform and the Affordable Care Act during the speech, the issue barely came up and zipped by. If you popped into the kitchen for a cup of tea or a
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New Delhi, Jan 29: Delhi Police hopes to cash in actor-director Farhan Akthar in an advertisment to educate people on crime against women."Now we are planning an audio-visual campaign with the actor on the issue. Talks are on," said Rajan Bhagat, Delhi
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After a newspaper campaign, actor-filmmaker Farhan Akhtar will be the likely face of Delhi Police for an audio-visual advertisement to educate people about crime against women. 38-year-old Akhtar, who directed the recently released Bollywood movie 'Don
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New Delhi: After a newspaper campaign, actor-filmmaker Farhan Akhtar will be the likely face of Delhi Police for an audio-visual advertisement to educate people about crime against women. 38-year-old Akhtar, who directed the recently released Bollywood
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A dangerous prisoner who went on the run following an armed escape outside a hospital is back behind bars - along with four other people arrested over the incident. Andrew Farndon, 26, was recaptured after he was sprung from the custody of prison
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A dangerous prisoner who went on the run following an armed escape outside a hospital is back behind bars - along with four other people arrested over the incident. Andrew Farndon, 26, was recaptured after he was sprung from the custody of prison
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A dangerous prisoner who went on the run following an armed escape outside a hospital is back behind bars - along with four other people arrested over the incident. Andrew Farndon, 26, was recaptured after he was sprung from the custody of prison
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Call comes as report details bullying fears of children in custodyThe parents of a teenager who died in custody have called for a public inquiry into the number of deaths of vulnerable youngsters in the UK's penal system.Jake Hardy, 17, was one of two teenage deaths in prison last week. He was found[...]
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A former prison governor's indictment of life inside Britain's jails deserves to be widely readWe rarely hear from prison governors, partly because they have their hands full dealing with the record 88,000 inmates that an unholy alliance of public opinion and politicians consign to their care, but a[...]