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Burglaries in Stoke-on-Trent fell by almost one third in the past six months, figures have revealed. Police say it is partly due to Operation Keepsafe launched earlier this year in which community police have personally delivered crime prevention advice to more than 12,500 households. And forensic experts are covering more break-in scenes than ever - resulting in almost 25% being solved. Overall, crime in the Potteries has fallen by 11% although violent crime continued its upward trend with 4,329 offences compared to 3,960.
Crime	The Sentinel – 7 October 2004



The music industry is to sue 28 people in London and the South-east alleged to have illegally swapped music over the internet, mimicking tough legal action in the US which saw a 12-year old girl sued for downloading songs. Criminal and civil court cases are being filed against 50 alleged uploaders in France, 100 in Austria, 174 in Denmark and 100 in Germany. In Italy, home to one of the toughest copyright protection laws in the world, police have raided the premises of seven alleged large-scale file-sharers.
Crime	The Independent – 8 October 2004



In the days after Danielle Beccan's death - the 14 year old caught in the crossfire of a Nottingham gun attack - there were at least 31 gun crimes in Britain, an average of one every five hours. There have been 370 shooting incidents in Nottingham this year alone, 30 resulting in death or injury. The statistics for UK gun crime might not rival the United States but they are growing. There were more than 10,000 offences in England and Wales involving the use of firearms in 2003-4 - more than double the figures of a decade ago. Supplying illegal firearms is a lucrative business in the UK. Earlier this year two career criminals who ran Britain's biggest firearms conversion business were jailed for six years. Stephen Herbert, 47, and Gary Beard, 45, bought 574 replica and blank-firing guns worth £344,000 and converted then into deadly weapons and sold them to London's gangs at the rate of one a day. The sources of illegal firearms into the UK are diverse. Customs say many come from within the EU, but also the US, Australia, Israel and even Argentina. In more recent years, customs officers have seen an increase in the number of weapons smuggled in from central and east Europe. Even hand grenades and Semtex have been intercepted on their way to London's criminal gangs. Last year customs officers seized 126 handguns, 102 rifles and 36 shotguns being brought illegally into the country.
Crime	The Independent – 17 October 2004



A survey by the Poppy Project this year discovered there were 730 flats, massage parlours and saunas selling sex in London, with 81% of the women in them from overseas. It concluded that a growing population was being coerced into prostitution and found evidence of trafficking rings operating in all parts of Britain. Prostitution and people trafficking is now considered the world's third most lucrative 'black market' activity after weapons and drugs trading, with hundreds of thousands of women and children believed to be traded across boarders every year for sexual exploitation and to work in agriculture, catering or domestic service for little or no money. The most common sources of women heading for Britain are Albania, Moldova, Ukraine, Nigeria, Sierra Leone and Thailand.
Crime	The Independent – 14 Ocotber 2004



Home Office figures released earlier this year showed that firearms offences in England and Wales had risen from 13,874 in 1998-99 to 24,070 in 2002-2003.
Crime	The Independent – 13 October 2004



The shocking extent of race-hate crime in modern Britain was exposed yesterday by figures revealing an elevenfold increase in the number of victims of racially motivated attack or abuse in the past decade. The charity Victim Support disclosed that it helped 33,374 people who believed they had been targeted because of their skin colour in the past 12 months. 10 years ago, it handled 3,072 similar complaints. But the charity's annual report, to be published shortly, will disclose that the number increased to 20,058 in 2000-01; 23,130 in 2001-02; it fell slightly to 20,950 in 2002-03 and then jumped to 33,374 in 2003-04. A study of race-hate crime by its branch in Claderdale, West Yorkshire found 34% of complaints involved allegations of verbal abuse, 22% of criminal damage, 7% of wounding, as well as smaller numbers of harassment and threatening.
Crime	The Independent – 12 October 2004



The £283 million bill for locking up young offenders is largely wasted, with the vast majority committing new crimes when they are released, MPs warned yesterday. In a damning survey of the youth justice system, the Commons Public Accounts Committee also said teenage offenders faced problems finding jobs, housing or education when they were released. Last year the police dealt with about 268,000 offences, with the courts imposing 93,000 sentences, including some 6,500 spells in custody. But the committee discovered that 80% of the teenagers who were locked up were reconvicted within two years prompting it to warn: "Short periods of custody are unlikely to make an impact on offending behaviour, nor help offenders gain the qualifications necessary for a change in lifestyle.
Crime	The Independent – 12 October 2004



Child slavery includes the commercial sexual exploitation of children through prostitution, trafficking and pornography. They are often kidnapped, bought or forced to enter the sex market. The International Labour Organisation (ILO) estimates there are 246 million working children aged between 5 and 17 with 179 million working in the worst forms of child labour- that is one in every eight of the world's 5 to 17 year olds.
Crime	Scottish Catholic Observer – August 13th 2004



An article from Pollsmoor Prison, Cape Town, South Africa reported that there is an horrendous backlog in the court system and serious overcrowding in prison. A significant proportion of the youngsters are from dysfunctional families, and although the re-offending rate is very similar to the UK (80 per cent plus), one must look at the overall numbers here in prison - 4 out of every 1000 South Africans. The standard of education is very poor amongst most inmates, and this exacerbates the problem of crime as their access to employment in a country with 40 per cent unemployment is very limited.
Crime	Christian Focus - June 2004



Official statistics show that violent crime is stabilising or decreasing, but more than 20,000 South Africans are still murdered every year and the fear of crime is rising, with 23 per cent of people surveyed in a recent poll claiming to have been victims in the past year.
Crime	The Guardian - 25th May 2004



A new study in America shows that Christians have been active in piracy. In the past six months, 77 per cent of those surveyed admitted to engaging in music piracy. Just 10 per cent of Christian teenagers believe that copying CDs for feiends and unauthorised music downloading are morally wrong, compared with six per cent of non-christians.
Crime	The Church of England Newspaper - 27th May 2004



Colombia is not safe. Rival factions fight for control of land, drugs and people, murder is a fabric of daily life: the death toll reaches a colossal 28,000 every year. Yet even by Colombia's standards the city of Medellin is particularly dangerous, so much so that local residents dub it the city of eternal gunfire.
Crime	The Walk - June 2004



This year's British Crime Survey found that 44% of victims of violent crime believed their attacker had been drunk at the time of the assult, and 70% of weekend night-time admissions to hospital casualty departments were alcohol-related....Alcohol related deaths have doubled in the last 20 years to the 6,100 recorded in 2002.
Crime	The Guardian



Children as young as four have guns and are used as little planes - to use the jargon of the street - trafficking drugs and messages between sellers and buyers.
Crime	Justright - Issue 10



A project worker who works in Recife states that ten of the 94 children who she works with were killed; 4 girls aged 14-16 and 6 boys, aged 16-18. The project worker stated that the law of silence is the law. Nobody saw, nobody says, nobody does anything.
Crime	Justright - Issue 10

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