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Article: We are a nation of 'passive bystanders', report claims
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- The Independent (London, England)
- Article date:
- September 2, 2008
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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 ...