Article: We are a nation of 'passive bystanders', report claims

Fundamental changes to policing and criminal justice are required because Britain has become a nation of "passive bystanders" who prefer to shift responsibility for crime and antisocial behaviour on to ministers, a study claims.

The report, from free-market think-tank Reform, says that Britain has the most expensive criminal justice system in the world but that over-centralisation by technocrats is failing to deliver results.

It proposes more transparency and local accountability via televised community court proceedings, online offender databases, detailed crime mapping, regionalised criminal justice policies, the devolution of power to elected local justice ...

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