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    • Sunday, 5 March, 2023
      Visual and data journalism
      British public U-turn on attitudes to immigration

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    • Friday, 3 March, 2023
      FT Magazine
      How Glasgow’s tiny, muckraking crime mag stays afloat

      Every week, some 700 newsagents display the latest issue of The Digger. What’s the paper’s secret?

    • Sunday, 26 February, 2023
      Victoria Dowd
      The tragic consequences of the have-a-go detective

      Crime tourists who flocked to Nicola Bulley’s village expose the perils of a macabre public pastime

    • Friday, 17 February, 2023
      UK politics & policy
      Labour to set out campaign against antisocial behaviour in England

      Plan for ‘end-to-end reform’ of criminal justice system using science to examine causes of offending

    • Tuesday, 7 February, 2023
      Former Met police officer jailed for minimum of 30 years over series of rapes

      David Carrick raped and sexually abused 12 women over the course of 17 years

    • Monday, 16 January, 2023
      Metropolitan Police Service UK
      London police officer admits series of rapes and other sex crimes

      Metropolitan Police missed ‘numerous opportunities’ to remove David Carrick, who has pleaded guilty to 49 offences

    • Saturday, 3 December, 2022
      UK crime agency arrests wealthy Russian businessman at London home

      58-year-old man and two others held by NCA’s anti-kleptocracy unit

    • Wednesday, 30 November, 2022
      UK prisons
      UK justice ministry requisitions police cells after jails fill up

      Government blames barristers’ strike for a surge in number of prisoners on remand

    • Thursday, 20 October, 2022
      Inquiry finds ‘epidemic’ levels of child sex abuse in England

      Recommendations include mandatory reporting of allegations and creation of child protection authorities

    • Monday, 17 October, 2022
      Financial fraud
      Online fraud an ‘afterthought’ for crime agencies, say MPs

      Only 2% of police funding spent on fraud despite it making up 40% of reported offences

    • Friday, 5 August, 2022
      Personal Finance
      Scammers prey on fears over the cost of living crisis

      Losses from the UK’s fraud ‘epidemic’ rose to £1.3bn last year

    • Tuesday, 26 July, 2022
      News in-depthMetropolitan Police Service UK
      Can London’s new Met Police chief fix the force’s problems?

      Sir Mark Rowley will be under intense pressure to stamp out a toxic culture and restore public trust

    • Tuesday, 19 July, 2022
      InterviewCrown Prosecution Service UK
      Compensation for crime victims should be increased, says CPS director

      Head of public prosecutions for England and Wales wants more money to go to those affected by financial fraud

    • Tuesday, 12 July, 2022
      Financial fraud
      Money Clinic Podcast: Fraud and the fight to get your money back

      We help a listener to recoup £17,000 from her bank

    • Wednesday, 29 June, 2022
      Serious MoneyClaer Barrett
      Fraud epidemic: antidote urgently required

      Record levels of online fraud in the UK show a vastly different approach is needed

    • Tuesday, 31 May, 2022
      InterviewFinancial fraud
      Policing needs reform to tackle UK’s growing fraud problem

      Tackling surge in scams, especially online, is complicated by ‘higgledy-piggledy’ national approach, says England’s lead commissioner for economic and cyber crime

    • Monday, 23 May, 2022
      UK politics & policy
      UK lawyers plan further protest over legal aid rates

      Solicitors in London to refuse burglary cases from May 25 as criminal barristers’ dissent continues

    • Monday, 16 May, 2022
      UK criminal justice creaking under ‘unacceptable’ levels of delay

      Sector was under-resourced at start of Covid crisis and is still struggling to recover, inspectors find

    • Thursday, 28 April, 2022
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      Enough — an impassioned plea to end violence against women

      The murder of Sarah Everard is at the core of Harriet Johnson’s book — but what can she add that feminists haven’t said for decades?

    • Friday, 22 April, 2022
      Personal Finance
      A quarter of young people trust scam messages

      Fraudsters target UK shoppers on average twice a week, research finds

    • Friday, 15 April, 2022
      Personal Finance
      Young Instagram users in UK face surge in impersonation scams

      Research reveals fraudsters’ adaptability across platforms

    • Tuesday, 22 March, 2022
      FT Financial Literacy and Inclusion Campaign
      Young people scammed on Instagram highlight UK surge in online crime

      Efforts to tackle steep rise in fraud are stymied by under-resourced and outdated strategies

    • Monday, 28 February, 2022
      Russian business & finance
      UK ‘working through hit list’ of Russian oligarchs to face sanctions

      Foreign secretary Liz Truss says ministers also considering action against advisers of tycoons linked to Putin

    • Tuesday, 25 January, 2022
      UK prisons
      Gaps in probation support raise risk of reoffending, say watchdogs

      Warning comes in wake of failed privatised probation arrangements and amid delays from court backlogs

    • Monday, 17 January, 2022
      UK politics & policy
      Criminal barristers in England and Wales weigh up strikes over pay

      Urgent government response needed to Bellamy review of lawyers’ salaries, says chair of Criminal Bar Association

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