Monday, June 12, 2006

Amid this panic over stabbings, we are ignoring what really cuts crime / Guardian, 9 June 2006

http://www.guardian.co.uk/crime/article/0,,1793618,00.html
Polly Toynbee
"Tucked away in the Cabinet Office's own strategic audit is the kind of evidence the prime minister should be poring over. Unpublished Home Office research assessing the cost-effectiveness of ways to reduce crime has produced astonishing results. But has anyone heard of it? Why doesn't Labour talk about its most successful programmes? Prison numbers will go on rising until politicians stop running scared of the Daily Mail and start talking about what really works. "