Kirsty Brimelow KC, the chair of the CBA, said: “Policies of prevention benefit society, but it would be a mistake to return to a similar policy to ASBO, which saw young people criminalised and locked up for breaching a court order when the original behaviour would not have resulted in detention. Public disorder offences took an average of 275 days to complete post-charge in crown courts at the end of 2022 – more than 50% longer than three years ago, Criminal Bar Association (CBA) analysis for the Guardian shows.
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Privacy Notice: Newsletters may contain info about charities, online ads, and content funded by outside parties. The party plans to introduce another 13,000 neighbourhood police and PCSOs, increase town centre patrols and guarantee a named officer and PCSO for every community.Ĭriminal justice circles have voiced concern that Labour is toughening its rhetoric on crime but not proposing more answers to the courts backlog and underfunding. Since 2015, 10,000 neighbourhood officers and police community support officers (PCSOs) have been cut from Britain’s streets, according to Labour analysis. Heap said Labour proposals to increase local policing could help. They’re long-term projects and these are very short-term measures.” But it’s the underlying social causes that need to be tackled. Heap added: “It seems Labour and the Conservatives are trying to out-punitive each other because they think it will win votes. Labour said police have told them the current patchwork of powers are not straightforward to use for prolific offenders. “We’ve got fairly punitive sanctions available with the existing tools and powers,” she said.
The government conceded last week that “94% of people surveyed had never heard of the tool” and rebranded it the antisocial behaviour case review.ĭr Vicky Heap, a reader in criminology at Sheffield Hallam University whose recent research suggested the community trigger was failing victims of crime, said Labour’s proposals lacked detail, but appeared to be similar to existing legislation. A mechanism known as the community trigger, which allows repeat victims of antisocial behaviour to request a case review, was used less than once a day across the country, according to 2021 data released to the BBC’s Panorama.
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