The rhetoric about support for victims of crime is excellent, and the themes of many victim conferences over recent years have sounded both impressive and powerful.

The government’s recent provision of £9.5 million to establish demonstration projects to provide integrated community services for female offenders was a welcome development.

In this paper I am concerned to document the ways in which ordinary and mundane experiences of criminal victimisation, alongside the more widely publicised threats posed by terrorist activities, transgress our everyday sense of well-being and in the light of this to consider the range policy responses that have been put in place.

Most communities seek to reduce crime in their locality.

The article reviews the risk prevention paradigm and contemporary responses to youth posing a risk and, to a lesser extent, youth at risk.

This paper explores the potential for deploying the discourse of human rights to invigorate debate about the ethics of penal practices and in particular the values of probation.

Over the last twenty years the prison population in the UK has been rising at an unprecedented rate.