Monday 26 July 2010
Summer Reading Project: 27th July 2010
Just a reminder that the next meeting is in the Inner Common Room at 3pm on Tuesday 27th July. Christine will be giving an overview of Chapter 6 from Jonathan Simon's Governing Through Crime. Look forward to seeing you there.
Thursday 15 July 2010
BBC suggests why crime falls or rises
You may be interested or entertained by an article in the BBC online magazine today which in response to the latest results from the British Crime Survey (BCS) has decided to run an article on why crime rises or falls.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-10635206
Some interesting theories are mentioned here, but many others are missing.
Their choice of experts is interesting too. They use Adam Crawford, Ian Marsh and also the human geographer Danny Dorling who has done some projects for the BBC in the past.
The article has left me pondering which theories I would include and which I would leave out if trying to summarise this topic. There's no mention of the link between age and crime for example (and the various theories relating to this). Given that the population of the UK is ageing and the majority of crime tends to be committed by younger people this might have been an interesting area to discuss. A quick look at population statistics for England and Wales (i.e. the area covered by the BCS) shows that the proportion of population aged between 15 and 34 has declined:- 30.1% in 1981, 29.6% in 1991, 26.5% in 2001 and 26.2% in 2008; the population aged 60 and over has increased: 20.5% in 1981, 21.0% in 1991, 20.7% in 2001, 22.1% in 2008(Source Office for National Statistics, 2009, Population Trends Table 1.4).
What would you include? Which experts would you have ideally liked to comment?
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-10635206
Some interesting theories are mentioned here, but many others are missing.
Their choice of experts is interesting too. They use Adam Crawford, Ian Marsh and also the human geographer Danny Dorling who has done some projects for the BBC in the past.
The article has left me pondering which theories I would include and which I would leave out if trying to summarise this topic. There's no mention of the link between age and crime for example (and the various theories relating to this). Given that the population of the UK is ageing and the majority of crime tends to be committed by younger people this might have been an interesting area to discuss. A quick look at population statistics for England and Wales (i.e. the area covered by the BCS) shows that the proportion of population aged between 15 and 34 has declined:- 30.1% in 1981, 29.6% in 1991, 26.5% in 2001 and 26.2% in 2008; the population aged 60 and over has increased: 20.5% in 1981, 21.0% in 1991, 20.7% in 2001, 22.1% in 2008(Source Office for National Statistics, 2009, Population Trends Table 1.4).
What would you include? Which experts would you have ideally liked to comment?
Monday 12 July 2010
Summer Reading Project: 13 July 2010
Just a reminder that the next meeting is in the Inner Common Room at 3pm on Tuesday 13th July. Katrina will be giving an overview of Chapter 5 'Project Exile: Race, the War on Crime, and Mass Imprisonment' from Jonathan Simon's Governing Through Crime. Look forward to seeing you there.
By way of a slightly tenuous link you might be interested that the Chief Inspector of Probation Andrew Bridges has called today for a 'deeper debate' on prison and punishment - whilst he recognises that prison can prevent offending, he also argues that this is a very expensive way of doing this. You can listen to the interview from Radio 4 Today programme here:-
http://news.bbc.co.uk/today/hi/today/newsid_8809000/8809436.stm
By way of a slightly tenuous link you might be interested that the Chief Inspector of Probation Andrew Bridges has called today for a 'deeper debate' on prison and punishment - whilst he recognises that prison can prevent offending, he also argues that this is a very expensive way of doing this. You can listen to the interview from Radio 4 Today programme here:-
http://news.bbc.co.uk/today/hi/today/newsid_8809000/8809436.stm
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