Seven steps to a safer society

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Home Secretary Michael Howard's new measures to reduce crime levels are unlikely to be effective. Instead, he should focus on a number of key areas. These include ensuring that drugs are not available in prisons, acknowledging that longer sentences will not deter criminals, helping former prisoners to become established in a life without crime and focusing anti-drugs measures on the small proportion of drug users who are seriously addicted. It would be much better to invest in tackling the causes of crime, such as deprived family backgrounds, than in punishment.

Crime prevention

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Meet the man who holds the key to our prisons

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Derek Lewis has been appointed director-general of the Prison Service by the Home Secretary Kenneth Clarke. This service becomes an agency on 1 April, 1993, a quasi-independent body that the Home Office will not directly control. Prison staff were worried, unnecessarily, that he was going to cut staff in turning the country's 130 prisons and five special hospitals into a private organisation. Conditions have worsened generally over the years, with, for example, only two of Wandsworth's nine workshops usable and prisoners locked up for most of the day.

Innovations, Officials and employees, Political aspects, Prison administration, Administrative agencies, Government agencies, United Kingdom. Prison Department

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Tests that condemn life's losers

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A significant minority of children have a negative self-image which formal written tests would reinforce. Testing assumes children are supported by parental encouragement, but children lacking this are at a disadvantage. Schools can achieve better behaviour from children with problems, but support staff are cut to maintain the education standards of the majority. Disruptive pupils are excluded because schools are paid per pupil and must attract more children. Exclusions rose to 4,000 between 1991-3.

Social aspects, Schools, Behavior disorders in children, Childhood mental disorders, Student expulsion

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