Prison

The USA has 3 times as many criminal offences as the UK

Posted: July 26, 2011 Author: Dan Lewis

I was staggered yesterday to learn that according to a 2008 study by retired Louisiana State University law professor John Baker, the USA has an estimated 4,500 crimes in federal statutes. But I was only really surprised because I had only just found out that the UK has precisiely 1,455 – 3 times less. We’ll […]

Cutting crime and the prison population?

Posted: May 28, 2011 Author: Dan Lewis

I keep thinking about this seminar I went to at Civitas – an excellent think tank – a few weeks ago, as reported on here by Alasdair Palmer of the Sunday Telegraph. Hats off to Civitas for inviting someone along to speak who doesn’t really share their view and thinks beyond prison works or doesn’t […]