Crime: A special report
A special report
The British are a nation obsessed with crime. It is a national topic of conversation second only to the weather. Like the weather, we are both perplexed by it and feel at its mercy. And most of us, not just readers of the tabloids, believe it is getting worse.
In this New Statesman crime special issue, our expert writers analyse this complex and often contradictory picture.
Home Secretary Jacqui Smith outlines her strategies for dealing with knife crime,while Britain’s “top policeman” Ken Jones explains how Dixon of Dock Green is being updated. But there are worries, too. Suzanne Moore tells of her anxieties as a mother living in the inner-city, and veteran criminologist Professor Marian FitzGerald believes that the roots of crime lie in a fragmented society, which may not be so easy to heal.
