Teenagers 'scared to leave homes'

"The fear of gang attacks is stopping young people from straying from their neighbourhood, research has suggested. A study involving 60 teenagers from Glasgow found that gang rivalry meant young people felt...

Ireland braces itself for another report on clerical child abuse

"A report into clerical child abuse in Dublin released later today will "shock and horrify" the whole of Ireland, a leading figure in the Catholic church has admitted."I confess that I didn't know that we were expecting another report. And this one, it's predicted, will cause...

Matthew Shepard Act: Hate Crimes Prevention Laws to be Expanded

The Matthew Shepard Hate Crimes Prevention Act, an expansion of hate crimes law in the United States, may be passed by US Congress. The new law would allow federal prosecution of violence committed against someone...

An apathetic, greedy west has abandoned war-torn Congo

"In 1996, I was sitting with 20,000 grieving women in a stadium in Tuzla, Bosnia. The women were holding photographs of husbands, fathers, brothers, sons and boyfriends who had been ­disappeared a year earlier in a place called Srebrenica, a UN enclave where Bosnian...

Violent Galveston Attacks and Murders Possibly Related - Serial?

One of 3 middle aged women who were violently attacked in Galveston, has survived. "All three victims’ injuries are all similar. The women suffered from severe head and facial trauma. They were all found...

Woman's Body Found Houston Tx, Day After Reported Missing

Body of woman last seen shopping on Saturday afternoon at a local Kohl's store in Houston Texas, was found on Sunday morning in a ditch about 15 miles away. "Sabrina Tolentino Pina disappeared on Saturday after...

Santa brawl leaves two in hospital

The night time towns of the UK are full of generally drunk but happy young men and women dressed as Santa either fully or partly out partying on the lead up to Christmas. Drink however has its downside and as here...

Poet's rhyming riposte leaves Mrs Schofield 'gobsmacked'

Poet Carol Ann Duffy has been touted by some as possibly being in line to be the first ever woman British poet laureat and here we see her response to the English exam boards removing her poem 'Education for...

GLBT more likely to be victimized by violent crimes: report

"Gays, lesbians and bisexuals reported experiencing higher rates of victimization for violent crimes, including sexual assault, robbery and physical assault, than heterosexuals, according to a new study."

A Crisis of Leadership

Calls to increase stop and search to tackle gun, knife and violent crime would only lead to further unjust victimisation.

Houdini Rapist Caged

HE tried to climb out of a courtroom through the ceiling and once leapt from a window during a meeting with his solicitor. He pushed over a supervisor and fled on his way to magistrates' court, and escaped from detectives by sprinting out of the door of a Sheffield police...

Do Away with the NRA

There will never be a meaningful conversation about gun control until the last member of the NRA is shot by a crazed gunman like our "young gun" friend in Cleveland. I'll bet NRA members were pleased to see that such a teenager of his age was so adept at handling his...

Illegal Aliens Linked to Rise in Crime Statistics

There has been an annual increase Illegal Immigrants and there has been an annual increase in Violent Crime. Some criminologists believe that the increase in Violent Crime is linked to the Illegal Immigrants who come into the United States with a criminal...

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