David Fraser is the author of Licence to Kill, Britain’s Surrender to Violence. He is a former senior probation officer and criminal intelligence analyst with the National Criminal Intelligence Service (now the National Crime Agency).
IN recent months it has been announced that some police forces in England and Wales, including Durham, are running ‘deferred prosecution’ schemes. These allow...
OVER recent months, Boris Johnson has made three separate announcements about sentences for some violent crimes.
In September 2019, he stated that the killers of...
LAST month Boris Johnson announced his intention that in future ‘life will mean life’ for the killers of pre-school children.
This is the first time...
Boris Johnson’s welcome ‘urgent review’ and promised U-turn on Rory Stewart’s softer prison sentencing policy has sparked a predictable spate of liberal criticism, led by...
LAST month the think tank Civitas reported on a recent proposal by Justice Secretary David Gauke and junior Justice Minister Rory Stewart to abolish...
THE Guardian reported in October on research authored by a group of legal, academic and community activists campaigning for, among other things, ‘fairness’ for...
Almost every day brings a fresh example of worsening criminal violence, committed in broad daylight, and now directed at police themselves. Last week two...
