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There has been a sharp rise in the number of prosecutions for modern slavery, according to the latest figures, but conviction rates have stalled. In total, the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) received 355 referrals from the police and other agencies in the financial year 2017/18 – the highest figure ever recorded. | |
Crime | CARE - 10th August 2018 |
New research from the Home Office revealed in July that the cost of modern slavery in the UK could be as high as £4.3 billion annually, an average of just under £330,000 per victim. This estimate is contained in an analysis of three forms of modern slavery – labour exploitation, domestic servitude and sexual exploitation. | |
Crime | Evangelicals Now – September 2018 |
New research from the Home Office has revealed the cost of modern slavery in the UK could be as high as £4.3billion annually, an average of just under £330,000 per victim. This is the first ever estimate of the cost and is contained in an analysis of three forms of modern slavery – labour exploitation, domestic servitude and sexual exploitation. | |
Crime | CARE - 31st July 2018 |
YouTube has deleted just over half of the music videos Scotland Yard has asked to be taken down because they incite violence, according to police figures. Metropolitan Police Commissioner Cressida Dick has blamed social media for fuelling a surge in murders in London, singling out the ‘drill genre’ of rap music for glamourising violent crime. Drill videos easily able to view online feature hooded and masked gangs threatening each other with violent lyrics, gestures and hand signals, with some attracting millions of views. | |
Crime | The Sentinel - 29 May 2018 |
The Global Slavery Index Report was published this week by the Walk Free Foundation...40.3 million people were living in modern slavery in 2016, seventy per cent of whom were women and girls. | |
Crime | CARE Impact Direct - 20th July 2018 |
A quarter of shops sell knives to under-age children, research suggests. Figures from retail age checking company Serve Legal showed that shop workers failed to check the age of mystery shoppers buying a knife in 26% of 2,357 test sales in 2017. | |
Crime | The Sentinel - 16 May 2018 |
Hundreds, if not thousands, of Irish people are unaware that their parents are not their birth parents after the uncovering of a scandal in which adoption societies, from at least the 1940s until 1969, incorrectly registered births when they gave or sold “illegitimate” children to adoptive parents. | |
Crime | Church Times - 22 June 2018 |
Pakistan-based charities reported in early May that hundreds of newborn babies have been found dead in garbage piles in Pakistan over the last year, with 99% of the dead infants being females, due to a cultural preference for male children. According to the Edhi Foundation and Chhipa Welfare organisation, at least 345 babies have been found in garbage piles in Karachi between January 2017 and April 2018. | |
Crime | Evangelicals Now - July 2018 |
A smoking ban has been identified as a factor behind a sharp rise in violence at one of Britain’s oldest jails, according to an inspection report. Senior staff at HMP Leicester also attributed a spike in assaults to an influx of younger inmates and the availability of drugs. | |
Crime | The Sentinel - 31 May 2018 |
A new report published today by Every Child Protected Against Trafficking (ECPAT UK)...highlights the high numbers of children being identified as possible victims of trafficking: In 2017 2,118 children referred into the National Referral Mechanism (NRM), the current system for identifying victims of trafficking and modern slavery. Children made up nearly half (41%) of the total number of suspected trafficking victims in 2017, and the number of children suspected of trafficking rose by 66% compared to the previous year. | |
Crime | CARE - 22nd June 2018 |
Figures published in January showed police recorded 37,443 offences involving knife or sharp instrument in the year ending September 2017 – a 21% increase compared with the previous year and the highest tally since comparable records started in the 12 months to march 2011. | |
Crime | The Sentinel - 4th April 2018 |
Sex trafficking is taking place on an “industrial scale” across England and Wales as the government’s strategy for tackling the issue fails to deliver, new research claims. A report finds so-called “pop-up brothels” – premises rented for short periods of time to sexually exploit women – are widespread, with hundreds of vulnerable women, predominantly from Eastern Europe, being supplied by trafficking gangs into residential properties in order to be sexually exploited by British men. | |
Crime | Independent - 20th May 2018 |
There were 37,443 recorded knife offences in the year up to September 2017. Four teenagers were stabbed to death on New Year’s Eve alone, bringing the total number of deaths to 80 in 2017. | |
Crime | Premier Youth and Children’s Work – April 2018 (oxygen-online.org) |
In France, sex with children under 15 is to be classed as rape, irrespective of ‘consent’. The move came following public outrage at the acquittal of a man accused of raping an 11-year-old girl. It will give more protection to 13 and 14-year-olds than UK law. | |
Crime | The Christian Institute – Spring 2018 |
The number of motorists caught using a mobile phone illegally has almost halved since penalties for offenders were doubled, figures show. Around 39,000 fixed penalty notices were issued to drivers between March and December last year compared with 74,000 during the same period in 2016, according to police data. | |
Crime | The Sentinel – 1 March 2018 |
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