English criminal law

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Sociologists and economists have highlighted that the British government have doubled the prison population at phenomenal cost while wasting money that might have reduced reoffending . In 2012, the prison population is 88,000 and the number of recorded crimes is well below 4 million . The number of murders is down by around 30%. Indeed, various reports have shown that new crimes were created, sentences were lengthened by law, judges and magistrates turned their punishments to political messages . Official statistics have eventually shown that the crime rates is gradually falling and hopefully this will continue in this way itself. Law officials are taking more and more harsher measures to ensure that the level of crime continues to fall. However, sociologists have underlined that there is very little connection between crime rates and imprisonment ...