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Crime
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08/12/2017
The centrality of poverty
Poverty as measured by material deprivation through lack of economic resources remains absolutely central to understanding the causation of most aspects of social exclusion and a range of social outcomes, concludes the 2nd of the two-volume PSE-UK study.
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11/03/2014
‘Troubled Families’ in a spin
The Department of Communities and Local Government claims that the Troubled Families Programme is ‘on track at the half-way stage’. Ruth Levitas unpicks the figures and argues this is far from the truth.
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14/08/2012
Disability hate crime – is ‘benefit scrounger’ abuse to blame?
Amid concerns that disability hate crime is being fuelled by government rhetoric over benefit ‘scroungers’, a newspaper has discovered that only a very small proportion of disability hate crimes are actually reported to the police.
Official Home Office estimates put the number of disability hate crimes at 65,000 per year, and campaigners say the figure could be as high as 100,000. But, according to figures obtained by the Guardian as a result of freedom of information requests, in 2011 fewer than 2,000 such crimes were actually reported to police forces in England and Wales; of those, only 523 resulted in a conviction.
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06/08/2012
2011 England riots linked to inequality
Income inequality contributed to the outbreak of widespread social unrest in English cities in the summer of 2011, according to a new briefing paper.
The paper examines the issues raised in the government-commissioned Riots, Communities and Victims Panel report, and points out that all of them are powerfully affected by inequality.
Category: Reports
