Drugs : guidance for the youth service / Drugscope, January 2007
PDF - http://www.drugscope.org.uk/wip/25/pdfs/drugsguideservice.pdf

[Scotland] Alcohol statistics : Scotland 2007 / ISD Scotland, January 2007
PDF - http://www.alcoholinformation.isdscotland.org/alcohol_misuse/files/Alcohol%20Bulletin.pdf

Raising spirits to combat alchoholism / BBC, 29 January 2007
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/6309619.stm
Tracey Logan
"Problem drinkers attending the faith-based Alcoholics Anonymous groups are 30% more likely than others to remain sober for at least two years."

Original article:
Encouraging Posttreatment Self-Help Group Involvement to Reduce Demand for Continuing Care Services: Two-Year Clinical and Utilization Outcomes
Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research, Volume 31, Issue 1, Page 64, January 2007
http://www.blackwell-synergy.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1530-0277.2006.00273.x
Keith Humphreys, Rudolf H. Moos [Sub required]

[Canada] Why is it so hard to help drug-addicted criminals? / Hamilton Spectator, 24 January 2007
http://digbig.com/4rctq
Susan Clairmont

Crossing borders : Responding to the local challenges of migrant workers / Audit Commission, 31 Jan 2007
http://digbig.com/4rctg
"This report is intended to help local authorities and their partners manage changes brought about by migrant workers moving to an area, by understanding better what is going on locally and developing appropriate strategies and services. It will be most useful for organisations in areas with limited recent experience of migrant workers. The report also suggests how national and regional responses could be better targeted to support local change."

Fines Collection : Tenth Report of Session 2006–07 : Report, together with formal minutes, oral and written evidence / TSO, 31 January 2007
PDF - http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm200607/cmselect/cmpubacc/245/245.pdf
Parliament. House of Commons. Committee of Public Accounts
HC 245 [incorporating HC 1269-i, Session 2005–06]

Without consent: a report on the joint review of the investigation and prosecution of rape offences / HMIC ; HMCPSI, 31 January 2007
PDF - http://inspectorates.homeoffice.gov.uk/hmic/inspect_reports1/thematic-inspections/wc-thematic/them07-wc.pdf?view=Binary

Police Service Strength : England and Wales, 30 September 2006 / RDS, 30 January 2007
PDF - http://www.homeoffice.gov.uk/rds/pdfs07/hosb0407.pdf
Simon Bullock ; Natalie Gunning
Home Office Statistical Bulletin 04/07

Sentencing Statistics 2005: England and Wales / RDS, 30 January 2007
PDF - http://www.homeoffice.gov.uk/rds/pdfs07/hosb0307.pdf
Home Office Statistical Bulletin 03/07

HM Chief Inspector of Prisons for England and Wales : annual report : 2005/06 / HMI Prisons, 30 January 2007
PDF - http://inspectorates.homeoffice.gov.uk/hmiprisons/docs/Annual_Report_2005-2006.pdf?view=Binary

The National Asset Register 2007 / HM Treasury, 30 January 2007
PDF - http://www.hm-treasury.gov.uk/documents/public_spending_and_services/national_asset_register/pss_nar_2007index.cfm

A place to be heard / The Guardian, 30 Jan 2007
http://digbig.com/4rcfr
Janet Murray
"Early intervention is at the heart of The Place2Be philosophy. Figures from the Office of National Statistics (ONS) show that 10% of five- to 15-year-olds have a diagnosed mental-health problem. Some 80% of children who show behavioural problems at the age of five go on to develop more antisocial behaviour. Over 90% of young offenders have had a mental-health problem as a child."

Security and Rights / CPS, 23 January 2007
http://www.cps.gov.uk/news/nationalnews/security_rights.html#07
Ken Macdonald QC, Director of Public Prosecutions [Speech]

Fraud report 2005-2006 : an analysis of reported fraud in Government Departments / HM Treasury, November 2006
PDF - http://www.hm-treasury.gov.uk/media/D18/C1/fraud_report2005-06.pdf

Accuracy and utility of post-conviction polygraph testing of sex offenders
The British Journal of Psychiatry (2006) 188: 479-483
http://bjp.rcpsych.org/cgi/content/abstract/188/5/479
Don Grubin and Lars Madsen (2006).
[Sub Required]

RES-000-22-0297 - Transnationalism, Citizenship and the 'Shadow State' / ESRC, January 2007
http://digbig.com/4rbtm
"The UK government has been deliberately increasing the role of the voluntary sector in providing welfare support. In the case of asylum seekers, rights to welfare services have been eroded, increasing reliance on voluntary organisations."

Ticked off / The Star, Sheffield, 29 Jan 2007
http://digbig.com/4rbtw
"Stefan Moverley ticked the wrong box and was subsequently suspended on full pay. A POLICE community support officer has been suspended on full pay costing the taxpayer more than £8,000 - because the wrong box was ticked on his car insurance application form. Stefan Moverley was arrested on suspicion of "gaining a pecuniary advantage" and removed from duties after his bosses discovered his insurance documents stated he was a policeman. Mr Moverley told The Star his only crime had been that a call centre worker at an insurance company ticked a box marked "police" for his occupation, when he was not a fully-fledged officer. He said: "When I took out the insurance they did not have an option for "PCSO" so the call handler said police officer would be the next most appropriate category." The company was advertised in a police magazine and gives the same reduction for all police staff, including support workers. I didn't get any extra discount."

[South Africa] Crime levels on the decline, study shows / IOL, 29 Jan 2007
http://digbig.com/4rbtc
Vusumuzi Ka Nzapheza and Anel Powell
"Contrary to common perceptions, there has been a steady and consistent decrease in most major crimes, particularly murder, over the past decade, a new study by the Institute of Security Studies (ISS) shows."

UK/Algeria: Fears for safety of two men deported from UK after arrests by Algerian security services / Amnesty, 26 Jan 2007
http://digbig.com/4rbsy
"Amnesty International said it was 'deeply concerned' about the safety of two Algerian men - known as 'Q' and 'K' - deported from the UK to Algeria, after they were arrested by the Algerian security services. The two men are reportedly being held by the DRS (Département du renseignement et de la sécurité), Algeria's feared military police. Amnesty International has extensively documented the DRS's record of torture."

Boom in organised crime takes fraud cases to record levels / KPMG Forensics, 29 Jan 2007
PDF - http://digbig.com/4rbsw

[Mexico] Disarm the police, crime goes down / The Argus, 28 Jan 2007
"THEY say law enforcement in a Mexican border town isnt childs play. Cops in Tijuana are now using slingshots to ward off drug dealers, kidnappers, thieves, murderers and other bad hombres. Some of the officers rely on marbles for ammo; others may have to use rocks. According to the Mexican media, some members of the 2,300-officer Tijuana police department have recently apprehended suspects using nothing more than baseball bats. [..] Everywhere you go people say that, ironically, theyve never felt safer. Murders are down. Kidnappings are down. Overall incidents of crime in Tijuana are down 14 percent since the cops were disarmed."

[Turkey] 'Crime does pay' for growing number of disillusioned youth / Today's Zaman, 29 Jan 2007
http://digbig.com/4rbsq
"The boast that Turkish society values tolerance and unity is being challenged by newly-released crime statistics citing a growing rate of felonies, particularly among young offenders. The ratio of crimes has increased over three fold in the last decade, according to figures obtained from the police department. Lack of educational opportunities, urban migration, income inequality and the breakdown of the traditional family are all contributory causes experts suggest."

Fight, Flight or Freeze : Understanding and training within the sympathetic nervous system / Officer, 22 Jan 2007
http://www.officer.com/article/article.jsp?id=34515&siteSection=3
Kevin Davis
"According to the latest research, engaging in dynamic training causes a fight or flight reflex in participants. Once skills have been learned, survival is enhanced by scenario based training.
The basics of marksmanship can be learned on the flat, square firearms range. Scenario based training makes the officer put the skill in context and deal with follow-through. In this case an officer is covering his wounded partner."

Managing a Pursuit and Surviving the Aftermath / Officer, 21 Jan 2007
http://www.officer.com/article/article.jsp?id=34513&siteSection=3
STEVE ASHLEYE

The Influence of Social and Economic Disadvantage on Racial Patterns in Youth Homicide Over Time
Homicide Studies 2007 11: 50-69
http://hsx.sagepub.com/cgi/reprint/11/1/50
Kevin J. Strom and John M. MacDonald
[Sub Required]

Using Ground-Penetrating Radar to Locate Clandestine Graves of Homicide Victims: Forming Forensic Archaeology Partnerships With Law Enforcement
Homicide Studies, Vol. 11, No. 1, 15 - 29
http://hsx.sagepub.com/cgi/reprint/11/1/15
John J. Schultz
[Sub Required]

Male Serial Homicide: The Influence of Cultural and Structural Variables
http://hsx.sagepub.com/cgi/reprint/11/1/3
Homicide Studies 2007 11: 3-14
James DeFronzo, Ashley Ditta, Lance Hannon, and Jane Prochnow
[Free access for limited time]

The New Mass Migration / Der Spiegel, 24 Jan 2007
http://digbig.com/4qyde
Klaus Brinkbäumer
"Today, there are more than 190 million migrants in the world. Many set out in search of adventure, but Africa's poor are fleeing desparation for a life of hope in Europe. Though rarely welcome, neither laws nor walls can stop them from making the dangerous journey. And thousands die each year."

UK cannot view Schengen database for criminals, terrorists / WorkPermit, 25 Jan 2007
http://digbig.com/4qydc
"Foreign terrorists and other criminals may free to enter the United Kingdom because immigration bosses are banned from seeing an EU "wanted" list of suspects. Some persons of interest are British citizens convicted of crimes in other European nations. Top police officials have told MPs that national security is at risk because of the loophole. Only 13 European Union countries, plus Norway and Iceland, currently have access to the Schengen Information System."

[Australia] National taskforce to take on bikies / The Australian, 29 Jan 2007
http://digbig.com/4qydb
Gary Hughes
"AUSTRALIA'S national law enforcement agency has established a taskforce to target outlaw motorcycle gangs amid mounting concern about expanding memberships and their growing involvement in organised crime, including arms trafficking. The Australian Crime Commission's board approved the establishment of the taskforce after an intelligence operation detected a significant expansion in the activities of outlaw motorcycle gangs in 2005-06. "

Sex crime roulette / The Age, 29 Jan 2007
http://digbig.com/4qyda
Geoff Wilkinson
"SEX offenders who commit further crimes are a small minority who can cause immense harm, according to a new study.But the study concludes that the task of reliably identifying potential repeat offenders is "extremely difficult, if not impossible". The research paper on recidivism of sex offenders found only 13.4 per cent were known to have committed a new sex offence within five years. "

Recidivism of Sex Offenders / Gelb, Karen, Sentencing Advisory Council, 2007
PDF - http://digbig.com/4rbwb

Identity Theft Search Engine Not Such A Wise Idea / Techdirt, 23 Jan 2007
http://techdirt.com/articles/20070123/094946.shtml
"With all of the data breaches that have been in the news lately, it's understandable that many people would like to know if their personal information was part of the lost data (hint: it probably was). To meet this need, a new site is offering a way for users to search a database of social security numbers and credit cards that have been exposed. This seems problematic for several reasons. As some are pointing out, it seems dangerous to get internet users into the habit of submitting their personal data on the internet to anyone but the most trusted sites."

[USA] Area prisons open up to methadone / The Morning Call, 23 Jan 2007
http://www.mcall.com/news/local/all-a1_5methadonejan23,0,2618140.story
Ann Wlazelek
" Advocates say continuing treatment for short-term inmates cuts recidivism. With critics long holding that methadone is nothing more than a legal replacement for an illegal heroin addiction, few prisoners nationwide have received the bitter medicine in jail unless they were pregnant and at risk of losing an unborn child to withdrawal. But that is changing. Lehigh County Prison has agreed to join Northampton and Berks county prisons in taking the next controversial step: continuing methadone treatment for short-term inmates who had been taking the medicine before incarceration. ''It's effective immediately,'' Lehigh County Director of Corrections said about providing methadone maintenance in the prison. Spurred by proponents who say treatment helps addicts resist heroin and avoid returning to jail, Sweeney said, ''It's a growing trend.''

Corruption in jails 'not tackled' / BBC, 26 Jasn 2007
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/6302823.stm
"The report was compiled last MayPrison officials have failed to tackle corruption among jail staff despite producing a report last May urging immediate action, the BBC has learned."

Death of spy who ingested polonium spurs drug companies / Naples News, 28 Jan 2007
http://digbig.com/4qybx
STEVE LEVINE, The Wall Street Journal

Sentencing follies / The Sunday Times, 28 Jan 2007
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2087-2570029,00.html
Holly Watt and Robert Winnett.
"The prison population has soared, sparking claims that people who pose no threat to the public are being sent to jail while dangerous criminals remain at large. The following selection of cases reveals the apparent contradictions at the heart of sentencing policy."

Quantum cryptography could stop Web hackers / CTV, 26 Jan 2007
http://digbig.com/4qybm
"A Calgary scientist is working on a security technology that could one day make Internet hacking a concern of the past. Dr. Wolfgang Tittel from the University of Calgary's Centre for Information Security and Cryptography is working with a team to develop secure encryption technology using quantum mechanics. Most of today's data sent over the Internet is sent electronically. Tittel is using fibre optics to send data on light photons that can move so fast, they can teleport themselves from one place to another instantly."

Stun-gun could be deadly - cardiologist / IOL, 27 Jan 2007
http://digbig.com/4qxwf
"Durban cardiologist Dr Donovan Parker said a stun-gun could kill a person with a weak heart "in a matter of seconds". "The stun-gun is designed to key into the nervous system. It dumps its energy into the muscles at a high pulse frequency that makes the muscles work very rapidly, but not very efficiently. This rapid work cycle depletes blood sugar by converting it into lactic acid, all in just seconds. This results in energy loss and makes it difficult for the person to move and function."

[USA] LAPD Shoots Back: We're NOT Fudging Crime Stats / LA Voice, 27 Jan 2007
http://www.lavoice.org/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=2575
"In the wake of the glowing LAPD crime report, I asked whether the department is fudging our stats or actually refraining from reporting certain crimes in order to bring down the crime rate. I quoted citizen anecdotes pointing to crimes left unanswered, and newspaper reports about confirmed statistics manipulation in New York City during and following then-chief William Bratton's tenure there, and wondered whether the L.A. anecdotes might be symptomatic of a similar phenomenon: police officers giving a less-than-accurate tally of crimes reported in order to keep pace with crime-reduction goals set by the COMPSTAT program. The LAPD Blog has responded with a resounding NO."

[Netherlands] IND ignores warnings of trafficking / Exptica, 26 Jan 2007
http://digbig.com/4qxtc
"The Immigration and Naturalisation Service (IND) issues work permits to Filipina women despite a recommendation against this from the Dutch embassy in Manila. The embassy says that the women are applying for permits to work as au pairs in the Netherlands but are actually being rounded up by gangs that traffic women in Europe. MP for the Socialist Party Jan de Wit concluded this on the basis of the annual report from the embassy. The annual report shows that the embassy warned the IND about the gang activities. Despite the warnings the IND continues to issue work permits." [Brief]

Commons passes bill allowing complex fraud trials without juries / Jurist PaperChase, 26 Jan 2007
http://digbig.com/4qxsx
Michael Sung
"The UK House of Commons passed the Fraud (Trials Without a Jury) Bill [PDF text; backgrounder] 281-246 on its third reading, sending the bill to the House of Lords . The proposed bill will allow defendants in serious and complex fraud cases to be tried before a single High Court judge, subject to the approval of the Lord Chief Justice. The bill, introduced by Home Secretary John Reid [official profile; BBC profile] in November, is expected to face heavy opposition in the upper chamber. The House of Lords defeated [JURIST report] a similar proposal in 2003, insisting on the value and historic tradition of the right to trial by jury. If the current bill is rejected by the Lords, the House of Commons has the option of passing the bill in the next session, which will then bypass the House of the Lords for the formality of Royal Assent. In June 2005, British Attorney General Lord Peter Goldsmith announced the latest government plan to abolish jury trials in complicated fraud cases [JURIST report] following the collapse of a fraud trial [Guardian report] earlier in the year, which was partly attributed to jury problems. BBC News has more. [Brief]

Open Access to Science Under Attack / Scientific American, 26 Jan 2007
http://digbig.com/4qxsw
David Biello
"Advocates of open access to scientific research may find themselves under fire from high-profile public relations flaks and high-powered lobbying groups."

[Australia] Drug abuse fight must go beyond government initiatives / Australian, 27 Jan 2007
John Ryan
"DEPENDING on whom you talk to, amphetamine usage is a full-blown crisis in Australia, a disaster just waiting to explode, or no bigger a problem than the use of any other illicit drug.
Amphetamines are more potent now than ever and are something of a fashion throughout our region. The overall demand for drugs rises unabated, even though for most individuals it is a passing phase. The demand is maintained by initiating our young, not usually by crafty dealers, but most often by friends and frequently by older siblings. It may be peer pressure, but it is just as often driven by curiosity and thrill-seeking."

Is the UK’s sleepwalk into surveillance society over? /InfoSecurity, December 2006
PDF - http://www.infosecurity-magazine.com/research/BB_rd.pdf
Philip Hunter

Time to evict official anti-racism /Spiked, 23 Jan 2007
http://www.spiked-online.com/index.php?/site/earticle/2760/
Neil Davenport
"The row over Celebrity Big Brother shows that hysterically witch-hunting 'racists' is a new British sport. [..] In truth, the tantrums inside the CBB house say nothing about what’s happening in multi-racial Britain, though the furore reveals much about the nasty prejudices of certain commentators. If the Goody/Shetty incident reveals anything about the state of Britain, it is that official anti-racism has become an hysterical and authoritarian force. Far from fretting about Goody and Co’s infantile behaviour, isn’t it time we put that up for eviction instead? "

The Link Between Psychotic Disorders and Substance Use
Psychiatric Times, January 2007, Vol. XXIV, No. 1
http://www.psychiatrictimes.com/Substance-Abuse/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=196902116
Emma Barkus

The Big Interview: Jerry Fishenden / ZDNet UK, 24 January 2007
http://news.zdnet.co.uk/security/0,1000000189,39285609,00.htm
Tom Espiner
"Jerry Fishenden, Microsoft's National Technology Officer (NTO) for the UK, advises the company on all aspects of technology strategy. His remit includes responsibility for developing the use of IT for local economic development, standards, interoperability, privacy, security and technical computing.
Fishenden has been closely involved with the UK's e-government programme since 1997, and was also involved in the strategic development of the Government Gateway — the UK government's national solution for user identity and transactional services. We quizzed him on the state of the security landscape today, the challenge of fighting spam and the government's plans to bring in ID cards and create a super-database."

Naltrexone for the management of opioid dependence / NICE, January 2007
http://www.nice.org.uk/guidance/TA115
NICE guidance documents for healthcare professionals, patients, carers and the public

Methadone and buprenorphine for managing opioid dependence / NICE, January 2007
http://www.nice.org.uk/guidance/TA114
NICE guidance documents for healthcare professionals, patients, carers and the public

London: The highs and the lows 2 : executive summary : A report from the Greater London Alcohol and Drug Alliance / Greater London Authority, January 2007
PDF - http://www.london.gov.uk/mayor/health/drugs_and_alcohol/docs/highs-lows2-exec-sum.pdf
Rebecca Smith et al
"This second publication in the Highs and Lows series looks at the nature and impacts of both alcohol and drug use in London. The report brings together a wide range of evidence from major national studies as well as regional and local intelligence sources. It provides a comprehensive picture of the complexities of alcohol and drugs and their effects on individuals and communities across the capital."

Full report
PDF - http://www.london.gov.uk/mayor/health/drugs_and_alcohol/docs/highs-lows2.pdf

Policing Cannabis : Use of Cannabis Warnings : Guidelines / ACPO, November 2006
Doc - http://digbig.com/4qxft

Veils cover-up to be banned by immigration law / Yorkshire Post, 26 Jan 2007
http://digbig.com/4qxfq
Simon McGee
"The UK Borders Bill features measures to curb human trafficking and illegal immigration, and deport more foreign prisoners. There will be new rules to tackle employers who employ illegal immigrants on cheap wages. All foreign nationals staying for more than six months will be obliged to hold a biometric ID card. Officers will also have powers to seize cash and property from employers who flout the rules. The pledge that the "vast bulk" of foreign prisoners will be deported regardless of the threat they might face back home is also set to become law in this Bill. Mr Byrne said that there would be an "automatic presumption of deportation" and that any freed criminals wishing to appeal would lose the right to do so before they were deported."

Europol - The final step in the creation of an "Investigative and Operational" European Police Force / Statewatch, January 2007
PDF - http://www.statewatch.org/news/2007/jan/europol-analysis.pdf
Professor Steve Peers, Human Rights Centre, University of Essex
"With this proposal, Europol comes much closer to becoming a form of federal police force, and indeed Europol's development has consciously paralleled that of the German federal police agencies. But the development of Europol's accountability is not remotely comparable to that of a national police force - even assuming that a federal Europol force could compare to national police forces and regards its efficiency or legitimacy."

UK Borders Bill / Parliament, 26 January 2007
http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/pabills/200607/uk_borders.htm

Explanatory notes / Parliament, 26 January 2007
http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm200607/cmbills/053/en/07053x--.htm

CONSULTATION PAPER ON CAUSING DEATH BY DRIVING OFFENCES / Sentencing Advisory Panel, 25 January 2007
PDF - http://www.sentencing-guidelines.gov.uk/docs/Cons-2007-01-09.pdf

Immigration appeal rules unlawful / Times Law, 26 Jan 2007
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,30589-2567704,00.html
Court of Appeal
FP (Iran) v Secretary of State for the Home Department MB (Libya) v Same Before Lord Justice Sedley, Lady Justice Arden and Lord Justice Wall Judgment January 23, 2007
"Provisions requiring an immigration tribunal to hear an appeal in the appellant’s absence, where he was unaware of the date of the hearing through no fault of his own, arbitrarily denied the very essence of the right to be heard and were unlawful."

L.A.’s New Gang War / Newsweek, 25 Jan 2007
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/16814347/site/newsweek/
Andrew Murr
"Violence has spiked in the last year, amid a flare-up of tensions between Latino and African-American gangs. Here’s LAPD Chief William Bratton’s battle plan." [4 pages]

Lack of evidence is damaging Gershon initiative / CIPFA, 26 Jan 2006
http://digbig.com/4qxfc
"The credibility of the Gershon efficiency programme is being undermined because the quality of the evidence produced to support claims of progress is getting worse, according to the Treasury select committee. In a hard-hitting report on December’s Pre-Budget Report, published on January 25, the committee accuses the Treasury of ignoring its previous calls to improve the evidence base and provide comprehensive supporting data. Instead, the opposite has occurred."

Public domain – No value in secrecy / CIPFA, 26 Jan 2007
http://digbig.com/4qxfb
Colin Talbot
"The Gershon efficiency drive has probably saved billions of pounds. But the government’s reluctance to reveal just how this was done might undermine the programme’s other aim of regaining public trust."

'We are all human beings' : Understanding the effects of the voucher scheme on 'Section 4' claimants in Sheffield / Northern Refugee Centre, [2007]
http://www.irr.org.uk/pdf/We_are_all%20_human_beings.pdf

Critics silent as ‘stocktake’ backs Asbos / Camden New Journal,25 Jan 2007
http://www.thecnj.co.uk/camden/012507/news012507_09.html
RICHARD OSLEY
"Democrats have been accused of backtracking on crime policy after spending nearly nine months reviewing the Town Hall’s anti-social behaviour strategy before finally agreeing that Asbos are working after all.T he review – a “stocktake” of everything Camden has done to stop nuisance behaviour – was published with no recommendations to slow down the council’s prolific use of the court banning orders. Instead, the final findings credit Asbos for helping to reduce crime in King’s Cross."

New Miniaturized Device for Lab-on-a-Chip Separations / PhysOrg, 19 Jan 2007
http://www.physorg.com/news88451386.html
"Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology have developed an elegantly simple, miniaturized technique for rapidly separating minute samples of proteins, amino acids and other chemical mixtures. A low-cost prototype device described in a recent paper can run up to eight separations simultaneously in a space about the size of a quarter, highlighting the technique's potential for use in microfluidic "lab-on-a-chip" systems."

Gradient elution moving boundary electrophoresis for high-throughput multiplexed microfluidic devices
Anal. Chem., 79 (2), 565 -571, 2007. 10.1021/ac061759h S0003-2700(06)01759-8
http://digbig.com/4qxeq
J.G. Shackman, M.S. Munson and D. Ross
[Sub Required]

DNA Detection on Plastic: Surface Activation Protocol To Convert Polycarbonate Substrates to Biochip Platforms
Analytical Chemistry, 79 (2), 426 -433, 2007
http://digbig.com/4qxep
Yunchao Li, Zhen Wang, Lily M. L. Ou, and Hua-Zhong Yupp
[Sub Required]

The Emergence of Super-Diversity in Britain / COMPAS, OUP [2007]
PDF - http://digbig.com/4hyte
Steven Vertovec

Progress of MPS e-crime strategy: Report: 10 / Metropolitan Police, 25 Jan 2007 http://www.mpa.gov.uk/committees/mpa/2007/070125/10.htm
Deputy Commissioner on behalf of the Commissioner
"The Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) is currently subject to a Metropolitan Police Authority (MPA) scrutiny on e-crime (now nationally referred to as ‘e-crime’). This report provides an update on the developments and implementation of the MPS e-crime strategy. The purpose of the e-crime strategy is to assimilate and co-ordinate best practice, training, industry liaison and intelligence for the benefit of existing MPS units, industry and public."

Private jails : Locking in the best price / The Economist, 25 Jan 2007
http://www.economist.com/world/international/displaystory.cfm?story_id=8599146

Asylum and Security Briefing / ICAR, December 2006
PDF - http://www.icar.org.uk/download.php?id=344
Sophie Wainwright and Kim Ward
"With warnings of further terrorist attacks still high on the public agenda, there has been a tendency amongst certain sections of the media and some politicians to make direct and indirect links between asylum seekers and refugees and terrorism and organised crime. Whilst several commentators have argued that the UK’s immigration generally and its asylum system specifically leaves the country vulnerable to foreign terrorists, a number of refugee and human rights organisations counter that such a claim is unfounded, unnecessarily generates public fear and demonises asylum seekers."

MCB sets out vision of multi-faith, pluralist society / Muslim News, 26 Jan 2007
http://www.muslimnews.co.uk/paper/index.php?article=2792
Hamed Chapman
"The Muslim Council of Britain (MCB) has entered the debate over multiculturalism by setting out its vision of a multi-faith, pluralist society with a conscious policy of recognizing that people’s cultural and faith identities are not merely a private matter, but ones that have public implications. The vision, which will be officially launched next month and seen by The Muslim News, is based on the acceptance that people should be able to be different yet treated equally. The MCB also said that it was aware of the need for accommodation and compromise."

Police stop and search policy called into question / Muslim News, 26 Jan 2007
http://www.muslimnews.co.uk/paper/index.php?article=2816
Safa Suling Tan
"Pressure by the Metropolitan Police Authority (MPA) for the police to rethink the use of special stop and search powers may have a positive result on the way the Metropolitan Police Service (MPS), other security services and government bodies exercise their counter-terrorism practices and authority. The MPA, being a body tasked to democratise policing by scrutinising and holding the MPS to public account, had organised a series of hearings – ‘Counter Terrorism: The London Debate’ – to facilitate community engagement to counter terrorism and enable Londoners to have a voice with regards to the police stop and search powers under Section 44 of the Terrorism Act 2000. "

ABPI confirms sharp decline in animal rights extremism / Pharma Times, 25 Jan 2007
http://digbig.com/4qwxr
"New measures to stem violent harassment by animal rights extremists in the UK had a palpable impact last year. Not only were there no personal assaults on people involved in the use or supply of animals for medical research, but 'home visits' by animal rights protestors fell sharply to 20 from 57 in 2005 and a peak of 259 in 2003."

Homicides, Firearm Offences and Intimate Violence 2005/2006 : (Supplementary Volume 1 to Crime in England and Wales 2005/2006) / RDS, 25 January 2007
PDF - http://www.homeoffice.gov.uk/rds/pdfs07/hosb0207.pdf
Kathryn Coleman, Krista Jansson, Peter Kaiza and Emma Reed
Home Office Statistical Bulletin 02/07

Distraction burglary: Recorded crime data 2005/06 : online supplement to HOSB 12/06 / RDS, 25 January 2007
PDF - http://www.homeoffice.gov.uk/rds/pdfs07/hosb1206supp.pdf

Crime in England and Wales 2005/06 : Supplementary Tables : Nature of burglary, theft, criminal damage, vehicle and violent crime / RDS, 25 January 2007 http://www.homeoffice.gov.uk/rds/crimeew0506_tables_bvv.html

Seasonality in recorded crime: preliminary findings / RDS, 25 January 2007
PDF - http://www.homeoffice.gov.uk/rds/pdfs07/rdsolr0207.pdf
Celia Hird, Chandni Ruparel
Home Office Online Report 02/07

The Use of Geographic Information Systems by crime analysts in England and Wales / RDS, 25 January 2007
PDF - http://www.homeoffice.gov.uk/rds/pdfs07/rdsolr0307.pdf Ruth Weir, Mark Bangs Home Office Online Report 03/07

Anticipate and thwart / Community Connection, 15 Jan 2007
http://digbig.com/4qwxe
Joseph Bouchard
"A refresher course about managing and preventing contraband."

Embedding the evil within / Corrections Connection, 21 Jan 2007
http://digbig.com/4qwxc
Sharon Goudy
"From terrorists to child pornographers, photos are providing the means by which they establish covert communication. Many of these criminals are experts at steganography. While it certainly sounds like something developed in the lab of a James Bond movie, the method involves using computer software to embed hidden text and images inside other images, which are called “carrier files” or “cover images, and then transferring them via the Internet."

Crime in England and Wales: Quarterly Update to September 2006 / RDS, 25 January 2007
PDF - http://www.homeoffice.gov.uk/rds/pdfs07/hosb0107.pdf
Paul Taylor, Sarah Budd, Katherine Thorpe
Home Office Statistical Bulletin 01/07

Media relations and community corrections / Corrections Connection, 22 Jan 2007
http://www.corrections.com/news/article.aspx?articleid=14948
Leonard A. Sipes, Jr.
"Some thought provoking ideas about what Court Services and Offender Supervision Agency uses to successfully manage its public relations and its relationship with the media. They are valuable strategies that agencies should consider having in their public relations tool kit."

Stopping ID fraud / Chemical News, 24 Jan 2007
http://digbig.com/4qwwm
"A group has developed a polymer film containing three fluorescent dyes and recorded information in the film by selectively treating it with light. Using this technique, they recorded three different marks of identity on top of each other: a photograph, signature and fingerprint. These could then be seen by looking at the film under different wavelengths. The researchers estimate that these films could produce ID cards that would be stable to daily reading for up to four years."

[USA] Teen drug use continues down in 2006, particularly among older teens; but use of prescription-type drugs remains high / monitoringthefuture.org, 21 December 2006
PDF - http://www.monitoringthefuture.org/pressreleases/06drugpr.pdf
Johnston, L. D., O'Malley, P. M., Bachman, J. G. & Schulenberg, J. E.
University of Michigan News and Information Services

Judge OKs charges in calf death / Spokesman Review, 23 Jan 2007
http://www.spokesmanreview.com/breaking/story.asp?ID=8493
Bill Morlin
""There is probable cause to formally charge two Spokane County sheriff's deputies with animal cruelty in connection with the Taser death of a black Angus calf last spring, a judge ruled."

Increase in staged accidents – but many are unaware of crime / Basingstoke Gazette, 24 Jan 2007
http://digbig.com/4qwwd
"Gangs of criminals are reportedly causing accidents with innocent motorists, with the intention of making a false or inflated insurance claim. Since 1999, there have been more than 22,500 fraudulent staged and induced motor accidents. Research by Royal & SunAlliance (R&SA) has shown that 41 per cent of British drivers have never heard of the crime. A further four out of 10 would not know if they had been in a staged accident and only about half of British drivers would know what to do if they suspected they had been involved in an intentional collision."

T3Ci Aims to Help Fight Drug Counterfeiting / RFID Journal, 23 January 2007
http://www.rfidjournal.com/article/articleview/2990/1/1/
Beth Bacheldor
"Developed in conjunction with one of the world's top drug companies, T3Ci's future services will rely on newly patented software mechanisms.
RFID applications services provider T3Ci was awarded a patent from the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) this month for technology it says will help pharmaceutical makers and other companies."

Swiss concerned over youth violence / Swiss Info, 21 Jan 2007
http://digbig.com/4qwwb
"Most crimes are committed by young men of Swiss nationality. The Swiss want to increase integration efforts and repressive measures to crack down on a perceived rise in youth violence, according to a survey. A majority of the respondents came out in favour of stripping young offenders of foreign origin of their Swiss passport."

Genes reveal Briton's hidden African ancestry / Cordis News, 24 Jan 2007
http://digbig.com/4qwtx
'This study shows that what it means to be British is complicated and always has been,' says one of the authors of the study. 'Human migration history is clearly very complex, particularly for an island nation such as ours, and this study further debunks the idea that there are simple and distinct populations or races.' The findings also have implications for forensic researchers, who often use DNA profiling in criminal investigations. 'Forensic scientists use DNA analysis to predict a person's ethnic origins, for example from hair or blood samples found at a crime scene,' explained Professor Jobling. 'Whilst they are very likely to predict the correct ethnicity by using wider analysis of DNA other than the Y chromosome, finding this remarkable African chromosome would certainly have them scratching their heads for a while.'"

Africans in Yorkshire? The deepest-rooting clade of the Y phylogeny within an English genealogy
http://www.nature.com/ejhg/journal/vaop/ncurrent/pdf/5201771a.pdf
Eur J Hum Genet advance online publication, January 24, 2007; doi:10.1038/sj.ejhg.5201771
Turi E King, Emma J Parkin, Geoff Swinfield, Fulvio Cruciani, Rosaria Scozzari, Alexandra Rosa, Si-Keun Lim, Yali Xue, Chris Tyler-Smith and Mark A Jobling
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HOW MURDERER WAS CAUGHT / Shields Gazette, 24 Jan 2007
Suresh Grover
http://digbig.com/4qwtr
"THE murder of Lee Phipps was an incredibly difficult case to solve for the highly experienced police officer in charge. Not only did Detective Superintendent Steve Wade have no witnesses, but the most obvious motive turned out to be a red herring. Meanwhile, the mother of the victim was determined to label his hard-working officers as racists. A look at the case."

New York City to Enable 911 and 311 Call Centers to Receive Digital Images and Video / GovTech, 18 Jan 2007
http://digbig.com/4qwtq
"New York City Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg, said that the city would soon do something no other city in the world is doing: "This year, we'll begin a revolutionary innovation in crime-fighting: Equipping "911" call centers to receive digital images and videos New Yorkers send from cell phones and computers ... If you see a crime in progress or a dangerous building condition you'll be able to transmit images to 911, or online to NYC.GOV. And we'll start extending the same technology to 311 to allow New Yorkers to step forward and document non-emergency quality-of-life concerns holding city agencies accountable for correcting them quickly and efficiently." [Brief]

Internet Crime: How Complaints Become Cases / GovTech, 11 Jan 2007
http://digbig.com/4qwtp
"The FBI in Los Angeles announced it opened an investigation to determine who hacked into a restricted database at the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA) that held the names and personal information of some 800,000 students, faculty, and alumni. Anyone who thought they had been further victimized as a result of the breach was encouraged to contact the Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3). To understand why IC3 was brought into the picture in this case, it helps to see how the program works."

Integrating the immigrants / The Dominion Post [NZ] , 24 Jan 2007
http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/dominionpost/3937897a6483.html
"It is almost 40 years since Conservative MP Enoch Powell said of British immigration policies: "Like the Roman, I seem to see the river Tiber foaming with much blood." The so-called "rivers of blood" speech saw his being sacked from the shadow cabinet, but thousands of workers struck and marched in support of his views and he was inundated with letters from wellwishers. The ordinary citizen's unease with immigration - usually unexpressed publicly - is, in many communities, as real today as in April 1968. Immigration - in essence, multiculturalism - remains a fraught subject, especially if the host nation feels its goodwill has been abused. Host communities become resentful if, for example, immigrants seem to want more than is felt to be their due, bring tribal differences to the streets of their new home and seem disinclined to integrate."

Major Immigration Changes in 2006 and beyond / WorkPermit, 22 Jan 2007
http://digbig.com/4qwtk
"2006 saw changes that will affect many immigrants in the UK. Those on a work permit or on HSMP or an ancestry visa in the UK will have to wait longer and have to meet more stringent criteria to gain permanent residence. From 2 April 2007 all those applying for permanent residence will also need to pass the Life in the UK test."

[Germany] Berlin Wants New Laws to Protect Prostitutes / Deutsche-Welle, 24 January 2007
http://www.dw-world.de/dw/article/0,,2325642,00.html?maca=en-bulletin-433-html
"Germany's federal government wants to toughen laws around prostitution, which is legal in Germany. The nation's family minister said she would like customers of women forced into the profession to be prosecuted."

FBI Launches E-Mail Alerts on Public Website / GovTech, 17 Jan 2007
http://digbig.com/4qwth
"The FBI recently launched a service that sends out e-mail alerts when new and vital information is posted on its Internet website. "Signing up is easy. Just click on the red envelope icons found on the FBI's main website. No personal information is required, just an e-mail address where the alerts will be sent. Subscribers select which topics that they want updates on, such as new e-scams and warnings, most wanted terrorists, top ten fugitives, and national and local press releases. Through its website, the FBI has also begun providing RSS (Really Simple Syndication) news feeds for press releases, top stories, and other breaking news." [Brief]

Police chief calls on communities / BBC, 24 Jan 2007
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/6296789.stm
Nasreen Suleaman
"The police are considering proposals to share intelligence and information with Muslims before launching anti-terror operations. The plans, announced by the Metropolitan Police Commissioner Sir Ian Blair, are part of a wider vision to engage more with British Muslims whose support police need in fighting terrorism."

Police rethink on stop and search / BBC, 24 Jan 2007
http://news.bbc.co.uk:80/1/hi/uk_politics/6295411.stm
"Police are reviewing stop and search policies amid fears they are damaging community relations, a senior officer has confirmed. Commander Richard Gargini said the Association of Chief Police Officers wanted searches to be led more by intelligence than "appearance". He said he was working with Metropolitan Police to develop a more sensitive approach. Other forces in England and Wales were also rethinking tactics, he added."

Identity and migration / Prospect, February, 2007
http://digbig.com/4qwsn
Francis Fukuyama
"Modern liberal societies have weak collective identities. Postmodern elites, especially in Europe, feel that they have evolved beyond identities defined by religion and nation. But if our societies cannot assert positive liberal values, they may be challenged by migrants who are more sure of who they are."

Swedish bank hit by 'biggest ever' online heist / ZDNet UK, 19 Jan 2007
http://digbig.com/4qwsk
Tom Espiner
"Swedish bank Nordea has been stung for between seven and eight million Swedish krona — up to £580,000 — in what security company McAfee is describing as the "biggest ever" online bank heist. Over the last 15 months, Nordea customers have been targeted by emails containing a tailormade Trojan, said the bank."

Organised crime online needs an organised response / ZDNet UK, 22 Jan 2007
http://digbig.com/4qwsm
"A half-million pound bank robbery is quite a feat, even today. When the heist happens on home computers, as it did with customers of Swedish bank Nordea, it's time to fundamentally review the assumptions on which the banks build our safety."

True Colors / CIO, 16 Jan 2007
http://digbig.com/4qwsj
Susan Cramm
"Character is an essential element of leadership. Here's how to develop yours and let it shine.
In my experience, most people are good. Walk the halls of any organization and you will find committed parents, involved community members and hardworking professionals. How then to explain the fact that on a day-to-day basis many of us behave badly, demonstrating such self-defeating behaviors as pessimism, selfishness and insecurity?"

How to Talk to Your Boss About Being Overworked / CIO, 18 Jan 2007
http://digbig.com/4qwsh
Stewart Deck
"Ongoing communication with your supervisor about your workload is key to pushing back. Twelve-hour workdays packed with mile-long to-do lists and meetings on top of meetings. Cell phones and BlackBerrys that are always on, and laptops you take home to squeeze in one more hour of work. What can you do to cope with on-the-job scope creep? Stand up and say something before your head explodes."

A8 migrant workers in rural areas : Briefing Paper / CRC, 24 January 2007
PDF - http://www.ruralcommunities.gov.uk/files/A8%20migrant%20workers%20in%20rural%20areas.pdf

Conviction rates for rape have plummeted since the 1970s. Is there anything we can do to change that? / Guardian, 24 January 2007
http://society.guardian.co.uk/crimeandpunishment/comment/0,,1997426,00.html
Marcel Berlins
"Did she consent or didn't she? Do we believe him or her? Except the law doesn't make it as easy as that."

My life on the streets / Guardian, 24 Wednesday 2007
http://society.guardian.co.uk/drugsandalcohol/comment/0,,1997289,00.html
Emine Saner
"Rhea Coombs became a crack addict and had her kids taken away from her... then ended up as a prostitute. Now that she is finally clean, she has written a book about her experiences."

[New Zealand] Parents to track teens' internet use / scoop.nz, 24 January 2007
http://www.stuff.co.nz/3938054a10.html
IAN STEWARD
"Website MySpace is moving to protect teenagers from cyber-savvy paedophiles by developing software that allows parents to track their children's movements on the internet."

Transforming government procurement / HM Treasury 23 January 2007
PDF - http://www.hm-treasury.gov.uk/media/4EA/89/government_procurement_pu147.pdf
"This is the first major reshaping of the procurement agenda since the Office of Government Commerce was established under the leadership of Sir Peter Gershon."

Bloodstain Evidence is Critical / Officer.com, 21 January 2007
http://www.officer.com/article/article.jsp?id=34511&siteSection=18
DR. DOUG HANSON
"Don't accidentally trash the crime scene."

How we can improve the reliability of fingerprint identification
JUDICATURE, September-October 2006 Volume 90, Number 2
PDF - http://www.ajs.org/ajs/publications/Judicature_PDFs/902/Cherry_902.pdf
MICHAEL CHERRY and EDWARD IMWINKELRIED

[Sweden] Bank hit by 'biggest ever' hack / OUT-LAW News, 22 January 2007
http://www.out-law.com//default.aspx?page=7679
"Swedish bank Nordea has been hit by what security company McAfee has called the biggest internet fraud in history. Up to £600,000 has been stolen in the past three months from 250 customer accounts."

Smaller project, same price for ID card plan / Computer Weekly, 23 Jan 2007
http://digbig.com/4qwfq
Bill Goodwin
"The decision by the government to radically simplify the technology behind biometric ID cards will not reduce the cost of the £5.4bn programme."

Judges try to block rape trial reforms / Guardian, 23 January 2007
http://society.guardian.co.uk/crimeandpunishment/story/0,,1996675,00.html
Clare Dyer
"Changes to rules on consent, expert witnesses, video evidence opposed."

Spelling out a better future / Guardian, 23 January 2007
http://society.guardian.co.uk/crimeandpunishment/story/0,,1996204,00.html
Jessica Shepherd
"Dyslexia is thought to affect more than half of those in prison. Special tutoring can turn their lives around."

[New Zealand] Prison officer stabbed in back during gang assault / scoop.nz, 22 January 2007
http://www.stuff.co.nz/3935488a10.html
LANE NICHOLS
"A female prison officer faces an anxious wait after being stabbed with a sharpened bucket handle that had already pierced an inmate's body during a vicious gang-related attack at Rimutaka Prison."

National Partnership Agreement between the Department of Health and the Home Office for the accountability and commissioning of health services for prisoners in public sector prisons in England / Department of Health, January 2007
PDF - http://www.dh.gov.uk/assetRoot/04/14/22/27/04142227.pdf

Interpol launches task force on child sex abuse / Reuters, 17 Jan 2007
http://digbig.com/4qwbm
" Interpol said it was launching a special task force to tackle a growing problem of paedophiles using fake "modelling" sites on the Internet to gain access to children. The sites do not contain sexually graphic images, but serve as a front, enabling paedophiles to contact the site owners and gain physical access to the so-called child models, or to buy images of the children being abused."

[Netherlands] 90pc of examinees pass integration test at home / Expatica, 17 Jan 2007
http://digbig.com/4qwbk
"The integration exam that the Dutch government requires non-western immigrants to complete in their home country before entering the Netherlands is posing few problems to examinees."

Nation must get precedence over ethnicity / Australian, 16 Jan 2007
Brett Mason
http://digbig.com/4qwbj
"It looked really good on paper. Immigrants would be encouraged to retain their distinct cultural identities on condition that they subscribed to the tenets of Westminster democracy.
But since September 11, multiculturalism has been taking a beating at home and abroad. In Britain the emergence of home-grown Islamic terrorism has caused a serious re-evaluation of that policy."

Many Companies Lack Formal Guidelines Against Pretexting in Internal Investigations, Deloitte Financial Advisory Services Online Poll Shows / Earth Times, 22 Jan 2007
http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/news_press_release,47408.shtml
"The Federal Trade Commission defines pretexting as the practice of obtaining personal financial information under false pretenses. The practice of pretexting has become prevalent in recent years and state and federal regulators are aggressively pursing offenders. Congress has also passed a law banning the pretexting of telephone companies."

Antisocial behaviour slashed with work placement scheme / Scotsman, 22 Jan 2007
http://news.scotsman.com/scotland.cfm?id=112372007
ALAN MCEWEN
"POLICE have slashed antisocial behaviour on a city housing estate by helping to find apprenticeships for teenage yobs."

Make cyber crime reporting easier, Lords told / ITPro, 22 Jan 2007
http://digbig.com/4qwaa
"Open source movement and Microsoft urge Lords to consider setting up single point of contact for online crime victims. Victims of cyber crime must have an easier way to report incidents, a House of Lords committee was told. Groups representing Microsoft and the open source community told the House of Lords Science and Technology Committee that reporting online crime was "extremely difficult" and the public are confused as to how they should go about it."

Care Matters: Transforming the Lives of Children and Young People in Care / Children's Commissioner, January 2007
PDF - http://digbig.com/4qtyy
Albert Aynsley-Green
"Response to the Governments 'Care Matters: Transforming the Lives of Children and Young People in Care'. Though the report covers all children, the Commissioner has serious concerns about Unaccompanied Asylum Seeking Children (UASC)."

Ministers reveal 'respect zones' / BBC, 22 Jan 2007
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/6285679.stm#list
"The government has announced 40 "respect zones" in England which will receive extra funding to fight anti-social behaviour. They will provide parenting classes, meetings between police and the public and "intervention projects", to tackle so-called "neighbours from hell". The areas chosen had problems such as truancy and deprivation."
List - http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/6285679.stm#list

Vatican city tops world crime stats / Catholic News, [January 2007]
http://www.cathnews.com/news/701/120.php
"Newly released figures show that the Vatican's justice department dealt with 827 civil and criminal cases during 2006, resulting in the tiny papal state having the world's worst per capita crime statistics."

Is the Vatican a Rogue State? (Der Spiegel, 19/1/07)

[USA] And Justice for Some / National Council on Crime & Deliquency, January 2007
PDF - http://www.nccd-crc.org/nccd/pubs/2007jan_justice_for_some.pdf
"Details the accumulated disadvantage for youth of color as they move through the juvenile justice system and, too often, into the adult system."

International Harm Reduction Association [new website] / IHRA, January 2007
http://www.ihra.net/
"IHRA is the leading organisation in promoting evidence based harm reduction policies and practices on a global basis for all psychoactive substances (including illicit drugs, tobacco and alcohol)."

Nationwide drug tests boost biotech company / Telegraph, 22 January 2007
http://digbig.com/4qtxg
Katherine Griffiths
"Cozart, a small British biotechnology company which makes saliva testing kits, has been boosted by a national roll-out of a system that tests criminals for drugs just after arrest. The Home Office's Drugs Intervention Programme was started in 2001 in three areas, including Nottingham, and will now include 173 police custody centres in England and Scotland."

[USA] Still fixing BROKEN WINDOWS / Sunday News, 20 Jan 2007
http://local.lancasteronline.com/4/29635
Gil Smart
"A 16-page report inside today’s Sunday News suggests that Lancaster may slowly be tipping in the right direction. To be sure, the Crime Commission Progress Report, prepared by the Lancaster Alliance Anti-Crime Initiative, acknowledges that crime is still perhaps the major issue in the city. Not all of the recommendations in the Crime Commission’s original, 72-page report have been put into place. Some never will. At the same time, there have been some high-profile achievements, and many lower-profile ones. Structural changes are taking place, the progress report notes, and the results may not be evident yet — but should, in the years to come."

How a pill a day could keep the riot squad away in Scottish prisons / Scotsman, 22 Jan 2007
http://news.scotsman.com/politics.cfm?id=110342007
LYNDSAY MOSS
"Prison study will examine link between diet and behaviour. Smaller 2002 study saw 40 per cent drop in violent incidents. Critics argue money should be spent on improving prison meals.
Key quote "Crime in this country has gone up inexorably and what has changed in recent years apart from diet? It can't be due to genetics. We can talk about the breakdown in family life until we are blue in the face, but all the psychiatric and social care provided has not stopped the rate of rising crime."

Ex-offenders can be saved from life of crime, prison / The Times-Union, 22 Jan 2007
http://digbig.com/4qtxe
TONYAA WEATHERSBEE
"The Delancey Street Foundation in San Francisco is fashioned like a kibbutz, it is a place where former convicts live in a housing complex and run businesses so that they can get a grasp on what it means to be part of a real community and the power that lies in being able to build it up rather than batter it down. The centerpiece of it all is the Delancey Street Restaurant, which is staffed entirely by ex-convicts and which has become a culinary fixture in the Bay Area.
There, former criminals find their strength in the power to create. Not to hurt or kill.
"People say that power corrupts, but nothing corrupts more than powerlessness," says a former prison psychologist."

Putting lives back on track / Times-News, 22 Jan 2007
http://digbig.com/4qtxb
Cassidy Friedman
"Court helps mentally ill felons without risking public safety."

[USA] Medical Causes of Death in State Prisons, 2001-2004 / US. Bureau of Justice Statistics, 21 January 2007
PDF - http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/pub/pdf/mcdsp04.pdf

Addicted to myths about opiates / The Australian, 20 January
http://theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,20867,21086185-28737,00.html
Theodore Dalrymple
"Almost everything you think you know about heroin addiction is wrong
Edited extract from Romancing Opiates: Pharmacological Lies and the Addiction Bureaucracy, by Theodore Dalrymple, published by Encounter Books. Dalrymple has worked as a prison doctor and as a psychiatrist in a general hospital in a British slum."

CRACKPOT: A FRESH APPROACH TO DRUGS POLICY: Policy Brief from the Bow Group by Humfrey Malins, CBE, MP / Bow Group, 27 December, 2006
PDF - http://www.bowgroup.org/harriercollectionitems/BowGroupDrugsPaper27Dec%5B2%5D.pdf

EU Justice Chiefs Tackle Violent Video Games / Deutsche Welle, 16 January 2007
http://www.dw-world.de/dw/article/0,,2312453,00.html?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf
"European justice ministers have agreed to compare notes on the control of violent video games, while stopping short of suggesting EU-wide legislation."

[Scotland] PRISONER ESCORT AND COURT CUSTODY SERVICES CONTRACT (PECCS) POST IMPLEMENTATION REVIEW (PIR) / Scottish Prison Service, DECEMBER 2006
PDF - http://www.sps.gov.uk/MultimediaGallery/cacd677e-c916-4a61-be17-30ba3bcfac3b.pdf

Asian Transnational Organized Crime and Its Impact on the United States / NCJRS, January 2007
PDF - http://www.ncjrs.gov/pdffiles1/nij/214186.pdf
James O. Finckenauer and Ko-Lin Chin

Community, Immigration and the Construction of Citizenship / ESRC, January 2007
http://digbig.com/4qtsd (click on link to PDF)
Caroline R Nagel
"Researchers asked Arab community activists in Britain and the US to share their views on citizenship, integration and multiculturalism. Questions included whether citizenship mattered to them, how they identified themselves, and where they considered ‘home’ to be.
Those interviewed tended to see themselves as members of multiple communities and to express attachment to their countries of origin. But they also valued the rights and security offered by their adopted lands, especially given that many had fled civil war, political repression, or statelessness."

Immigrants Assimilate as Communities, Not Just as Individuals / IZA, January 2007
PDF - http://ftp.iza.org/dp2538.pdf
Timothy J. Hatton ; Andrew Leigh
IZA Discussion Paper No. 2538

[USA] Constitutional Collectivism and Ex-Offender Residence Exclusion Zones
Iowa Law Review, Vol. 92, p. 1, 2007
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=902912
WAYNE A. LOGAN
" The US has often been imperiled by the competing interests of individual states, and while past threats have most frequently assumed economic or political form, this article addresses a different threat: state efforts to limit where ex-offenders (those convicted of sex crimes in particular) can live."

[USA] Missing Persons and Unidentified Remains: The Nation’s Silent Mass Disaster
NIJ Journal No. 256 • January 2007
http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/nij/journals/256/missing-persons.html
Nancy Ritter
"If you ask most Americans about a mass disaster, they’re likely to think of the 9/11 attacks on the World Trade Center, Hurricane Katrina, or the Southeast Asian tsunami. Very few people, including law enforcement officials, would think of the number of missing persons and unidentified human remains in our Nation as a crisis. It is, however, what experts call “a mass disaster over time.”"

Making Every Encounter Count: Building Trust and Confidence in the Police
NIJ Journal No. 256 • January 2007
http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/nij/journals/256/building-trust.html
Jake Horowitz

Sexual Assault in Abusive Relationships
NIJ Journal No. 256 • January 2007
http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/nij/journals/256/sexual-assault.html
Lauren R. Taylor with Nicole Gaskin-Laniyan

Identifying Remains: Lessons Learned From 9/11
NIJ Journal No. 256 • January 2007
http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/nij/journals/256/lessons-learned.html
Nancy Ritter

[USA] The Inherent Flaws in the Inherent Authority Position: Why Inviting Local Enforcement of Immigration Laws Violates the Constitution
Florida State University Law Review, Vol. 31, p. 965, 2004
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=954367
HUYEN PHAM

2006 Global Information Security Workforce Study / (ISC)2, 18 January 2007
PDF - https://www.isc2.org/download/workforcestudy06.pdf
Allan Carey

[USA] The Meaning, Status, and Future of Reproductive Autonomy: The Case of Alcohol Use During Pregnancy
UCLA Women’s Law Journal, Volume 15, No 1, Fall 2006
PDF - http://www.pire.org/documents/UCLAWomensLawJournal.pdf
Sue Thomas, Lisa Rickert and Carol Cannon
"Undoubtedly, abusing alcohol during pregnancy can be damaging to a developing fetus. However, a new study found women lawmakers are shaping the policy debate on whether women receive treatment or go to jail for using alcohol during pregnancy."

The Deadly Trade of Child Organ Trafficking / Asharq Alawsat, 20 January 2007
http://www.aawsat.com/english/news.asp?section=3&id=7723
Prakriiti Gupta
"The horrific killings of 19 children and women in the Indian slum of Nithari, close to the affluent area of Noida on the outskirts of India’s capital, Delhi, has brought into focus the horrific trade of human organ trafficking that is claiming the lives of thousands of children worldwide.
There is huge demand and a market for body parts especially eyes, hearts and kidneys belonging to children. ... While victims are primarily from Asia, Eastern Europe, the former Soviet Union, Latin America and Africa, trafficking also takes place in developed countries."

Refuge now helps male abuse victims / Preston Today, 20 January 2007
http://www.prestontoday.net/ViewArticle.aspx?sectionid=73&articleid=1984373
"Men who find themselves victims of domestic violence can now seek help from Preston Women's Refuge."

Russia implements new rules to combat illegal immigration / Jurist, 15 January 2007
http://jurist.law.pitt.edu/paperchase/2007/01/russia-implements-new-rules-to-combat.php
Alexis Unkovic
"New rules intended to combat illegal immigration [JURIST news archive] went into force in Russia [JURIST news archive] Monday. The rules set harsher penalties for businesses that employ illegal migrants, restrict border crossings, amend the Criminal Code, limit the duration of visas distributed to certain nationalities, and increase reporting requirements [Voice of Russia press release] to the Russian Federal Migration Service [official website, in Russian] for employers. Meanwhile, officials have simplified protocols for citizens of most former Soviet republics seeking the rights to live and work in Russia."

Why I fear joined-up government / silicon.com, 18 January 2007
http://software.silicon.com/security/0,39024655,39165280,00.htm
Simon Moores
"Would you trust Whitehall with your data?
As government once again considers building a 'super database' linking all our personal details, explains why, though he doesn't oppose the idea in theory, he's uneasy about it in practice."

e-Justice in Europe: Cross-border use of IT in the Justice Sector / PublicTechnology.net, 17 January 2007
http://www.publictechnology.net/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=7429
"At their informal meeting in Dresden, the Ministers of Justice of the European Union have agreed to take advantage of the opportunities offered by the cross-border support of the justice sector through information and communication technology (e-justice) and to intensify cooperation in this field."

Policing cannabis as a Class C drug : An arresting change? / Joseph Rowntree Foundation, 21 January 2007
PDF - http://www.jrf.org.uk/bookshop/eBooks/1961-policing-cannabis-classc.pdf
A review of the impact of reclassification on the policing of cannabis possession.
Tiggey May, Martin Duffy, Hamish Warburton and Mike Hough

Australia kills off war crimes unit / The Age, 21 January 2007
http://digbig.com/4qtrq
Tom Hyland
"THE Immigration Department has wound up a special war crimes taskforce amid renewed controversy over allegations that suspected war criminals are living freely in Australia."

Preparing for the worst
Nature 443, 907-908 (26 October 2006)
http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v443/n7114/full/443907a.html
Michael May and Jay Davis
"How a database of nuclear databases could help the effort to combat trafficking." [Sub required]

Drug treatment seekers more likely to use needle exchange / EurekAlert!, 18 January 2007
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2007-01/jhub-dts011807.php
"A new study examined the connection between Baltimore City's needle exchange programme and drug treatment programmes. Individuals who enter treatment programmes for drug addiction were more likely to be HIV-positive females who use the Baltimore City needle exchange programmes. The study highlights the need for treatment facilities to address co-occurring problems, such as HIV and mental illness."

Beyond Needle Sharing: Meta-Analyses of Social Context Risk Behaviors of Injection Drug Users Attending Needle Exchange Programs
Substance Use & Misuse, Volume 41, Numbers 10-12, -12/2006, pp. 1379-1394(16)http://digbig.com/4qtpm
Ksobiech, Kate

[USA] NIST 'Standard Bullet' fights gang violence / EurekAlert!, 19 January 2007
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2007-01/nios-nb011907.php
"Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have developed a copper bullet designed to help end criminal sprees without once being fired. Crime laboratories can use NIST's "Standard Bullet" to optimise the settings of computerised optical imaging instruments used to match markings on fired bullets from a suspected weapon.
For more information on NIST Standard Reference Material 2460, "Standard Bullet," see https://srmors.nist.gov/view_detail.cfm?srm=2460"

Right counter height can improve fingerprint capture / EurekAlert!, 19 January 2007
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2007-01/nios-rch011907.php
"As part of its role under the USA PATRIOT Act, researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) conducted a study examining the effect of the work surface height of a fingerprint sensor on the quality and the time required to collect prints."

Effects of Scanner Height on Fingerprint Capture / NIST, December 2006
http://zing.ncsl.nist.gov/biousa/docs/NISTIR-7382-Height%20Study.pdf
Mary Theofanos et al

Juvenile Sex Offenders Compared to Non-Sex Offenders : A Review of the Literature 1995-2005
Trauma, Violence, & Abuse, Vol. 7, No. 4, 227-243 (2006)
http://tva.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/7/4/227
Anton van Wijk et al [Sub required]

[USA] Prison-Based Animal Programs : A National Survey
The Prison Journal, Vol. 86, No. 4, 407-430 (2006)
http://tpj.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/86/4/407
Gennifer Furst [Sub required]

[Canada] Setting Aside Criminal Convictions in Canada : A Successful Approach to Offender Reintegration
The Prison Journal, Vol. 86, No. 4, 452-469 (2006)
http://tpj.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/86/4/452
Rick Ruddell ; L. Thomas Winfree, Jr

Preventing Female-Perpetrated Sexual Abuse
Trauma, Violence, & Abuse, Vol. 8, No. 1, 19-32 (2007)
http://tva.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/8/1/19
Brian E. Oliver [Sub required]

European criminal law and European identity
Criminal Law and Philosophy, Volume 1, Number 1 / January, 2007
http://digbig.com/4qtky
Mireille Hildebrandt [Sub required]

Cyber child pornography: A review paper of the social and legal issues and remedies—and a proposed technological solution
Aggression and Violent Behavior Volume 12, Issue 1 , January-February 2007, Pages 45-63
http://digbig.com/4qtkx
Bernadette H. Schella et al

The good lives model of offender rehabilitation: Clinical implications
Aggression and Violent Behavior Volume 12, Issue 1 , January-February 2007, Pages 87-107
http://digbig.com/4qtkw
Tony Warda, Ruth E. Mann and Theresa A. Gannon
"The major aim of the current paper is to expand on the practice elements of the Good Lives Model-Comprehensive (GLM-C) of offender rehabilitation and to provide a detailed examination of its assessment and treatment implications. First we discuss the notion of rehabilitation and the qualities a good theory of rehabilitation should possess. Second, the principles, etiological assumptions, and general treatment implications of the GLM-C are briefly described. Third, we outline in considerable detail the application of this novel perspective to the assessment and treatment of sexual offenders. Finally, we conclude the paper with a summary of the major benefits we envisage the GLM-C bringing to the rehabilitation of sexual offenders." [Sub required]

Women who perpetrate intimate partner violence: A review of the literature with recommendations for treatment
Aggression and Violent Behavior Volume 12, Issue 1 , January-February 2007, Pages 108-115
http://digbig.com/4qtkt
Michelle Carney, Fred Buttell and Don Dutton [Sub required]

Measurement of the effectiveness of sex offender treatment
Aggression and Violent Behavior Volume 12, Issue 1 , January-February 2007, Pages 36-44
http://digbig.com/4qtks
Leigh Harkins, and Anthony Beech [Sub required]

Forgiveness for intimate partner violence: The influence of victim and offender variables
Personality and Individual Differences Volume 42, Issue 4 , March 2007, Pages 653-664
http://digbig.com/4qtkp
Jo-Ann Tsang, and Matthew S. Stanford [Sub required]

Protection of sex workers
BMJ 2007;334:52-53 (13 January)
http://digbig.com/4qtkn
Michael D E Goodyear and Linda Cusick
"Decriminalisation could restore public health priorities and human rights." [Sub required]

The UK Government must stop putting prostitutes at risk / DrPetra.co.uk, 12 January 2007
http://www.drpetra.co.uk/blog/?p=445
Dr Petra Boynton
"In an editorial in the BMJ, Professor Michael Goodyear and colleagues argue the UK Government’s current approach towards prostitution is putting sex workers at risk. The editorial comes after a bungled home office consultation on prostitution that didn’t represent the needs and opinions of sex workers, the overuse of anti social behaviour orders (ASBOs) that have forced prostitutes to work in increasingly isolated ways, and the tragic murders of five young women in Ipswich at the end of 2006."

[USA] The Efficacy of Victim Services Programs : Alleviating the Psychological Suffering of Crime Victims?
Criminal Justice Policy Review, Vol. 17, No. 4, 387-406 (2006)
http://cjp.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/17/4/387
Barbara Sims ; Berwood Yost ; Christina Abbott [Sub required]

[USA] Parenting Programs for Incarcerated Parents : Current Research and Future Directions
Criminal Justice Policy Review, Vol. 17, No. 4, 407-427 (2006)
http://cjp.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/17/4/407
Ann Booker Loper ; Elena Hontoria Tuerk [Sub required]

[USA] "Budgets, Institutions, and Change: Criminal Justice Policy in America Revisited"
Criminal Justice Policy Review, Vol. 17, No. 4, 451-467 (2006)
http://cjp.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/17/4/451
Willard M. Oliver ; Nancy E. Marion [Sub required]

Criminal Justice System Reform and Wrongful Conviction: A Research Agenda
Criminal Justice Policy Review, Vol. 17, No. 4, 468-492 (2006)
http://cjp.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/17/4/468
Marvin Zalman [Sub required]

[USA] Exercising Your Emergency Operations Plan / Officer.com, 14 January 14 2007
http://www.officer.com/article/article.jsp?id=34387&siteSection=3
GLEN KARPOVICH
"Planning and conducting an exercise
You have just spent a large amount of time, effort and money developing your Emergency Operations Plan. Now, how do you know it is going to work when needed? In order to make all of your hard work pay off, you need to validate your plan by testing it. This is referred to as exercising your plan."

Is it a crime or just idiocy? / International Herald Tribune, 19 January 2007
http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/01/19/opinion/edsokol.php
Ronald Sokol
"Last week, Germany proposed that all European Union members adopt a uniform law to make Holocaust denial a criminal offense. Denial of the Holocaust is already a crime in Austria, Belgium, the Czech Republic, France, Germany, Lithuania, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Spain and Switzerland.
The proposal has prompted a sharp debate on whether denial of an historical event should ever be criminalised."

[USA] Civil Liability for Prisoner Suicide
2007 (2) AELE Mo. L. J. 301 Jail & Prisoner Law Section – February, 2007
http://www.aele.org/law/2007JBFEB/2007-02MLJ301.pdf
"Suicides by persons in custody, whether pre-trial detainees or convicted prisoners, and whether attempted or successful, is a troublesome and recurrent issue for jails and prisons. While it was once assumed by some that this was largely a question of suicide by pre-trial detainees in jail, recent studies have shown that, while the suicide rate is, indeed, much higher in jails than in prisons (approximately triple), the suicide rate in prisons is nevertheless much higher than in the general population."

Drugline goes live in city school / BBC News [Bristol], 19 January 2007
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/bristol/6280235.stm
"A phone line for pupils to pass information to police relating to drugs has been set up in a school.
A dedicated telephone line enables students to report anyone they suspect of dealing or using drugs anonymously and confidentially.
"We want to reassure students and offer them the opportunity of expressing any concerns they may have," said PCSO Debbie Charman who is behind the new phone line idea."

[Canada] New rules may aid crystal meth makers: regulators / National Post, 19 January 2007
http://digbig.com/4qtkg
Tom Blackwell
"Ephedrine-based remedies can be sold with no controls."

Mobile CCTV Sends Videos To Handhelds / Security Oracle, 19 January 2007
http://www.securityoracle.com/news/detail.html?id=11794
"Tyco Traffic & Transportation has launched a new handheld mobile CCTV solution that delivers live video such as traffic flow or incident images direct to mobile users using a handheld PDA, notebook or desktop PC. The system is suited for personnel who need to access video including PTZ camera control while on the move to provide a faster response to events or emergencies."

'Race policy' on nightclub doors / BBC News [West Yorkshire], 19 January 2007
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/west_yorkshire/6274389.stm
"Two Leeds nightclubs have denied they operate a door policy based on race after the BBC investigated claims black and Asian people were being excluded.
Inside Out sent a group of black and Asian men and a group of white men to the Rehab and Townhouse nightclubs wearing exactly the same clothes."

Population in Custody: MONTHLY TABLES: November 2006: England and Wales / RDS, 8 January 2007
PDF - http://www.homeoffice.gov.uk/rds/pdfs07/prisnov06.pdf

Effective Supervision Inspection of the National Probation Service for England and Wales Follow-up report on: Warwickshire Probation Area / HM Inspectorate of Probation, November 2006
PDF - http://inspectorates.homeoffice.gov.uk/hmiprobation/inspect_reports/effective-inspections.html/WarksESIFollowup.pdf?view=Binary

Effective Supervision Inspection of the National Probation Service for England and Wales Follow-up report on: Warwickshire Probation Area / HM Inspectorate of Probation, November 2006
PDF - http://inspectorates.homeoffice.gov.uk/hmiprobation/inspect_reports/effective-inspections.html/WarksESIFollowup.pdf?view=Binary

Joint Inspection of Youth Offending Teams of England and Wales: Report on: Barnsley Youth Offending Team / HM Inspectorate of Probation, December 2006
PDF - http://inspectorates.homeoffice.gov.uk/hmiprobation/inspect_reports/yot-inspections.html/Barnsley_YOT.PDF?view=Binary

Joint Inspection of Youth Offending Teams of England and Wales: Report on: Kingston Upon Thames Youth Offending Team / HM Inspectorate of Probation, January 2007
PDF - http://inspectorates.homeoffice.gov.uk/hmiprobation/inspect_reports/yot-inspections.html/Kingston_Upon_Thames.pdf?view=Binary

An Inspection of Junior Attendance Centres : THEMATIC INSPECTION REPORT / HM Inspectorate of Probation, January 2007
PDF - http://inspectorates.homeoffice.gov.uk/hmiprobation/docs/Junior_Attendance_Centres_r1.pdf?view=Binary