Crime, Justice, Police

First annual Edinburgh fear of crime survey covering Edinburgh residents' attitudes to quality of life and perceptions of crime in the city.

The Criminal Justice System (CJS) Race Unit today publishes a MORI report detailing perceptions of ethnic minorities regarding whether they feel they would be equitably treated by the CJS.

The UK public is largely ignorant of the threats they face on the Internet, according to recent research conducted by MORI on behalf of StreamShield. Just 16% of the public has heard of the term 'key loggers' — malicious programs that record confidential password details — and only 24% had heard of the term 'phishing' — bogus emails purporting to be from one's bank asking for account information, with the intention of stealing funds.

Research on the public's thoughts on anti- social behaviour and particularly their feelings about ASBOs.

With renewed focus on restoring respect and the need to tackle anti-social behaviour post- election, a new survey by MORI Social Research Institute provides a gauge of public opinion towards the use of anti-social behaviour orders (ASBOs). The research, launched at a MORI conference on 9th June, with speeches from Nick Pearce, Director of IPPR and Louise Casey, Head of the Anti Social Behaviour Unit for the Home Office, shows:

Young people are more likely to say they have been the victim of a crime in the past 12 months than the rest of the British public, according to research from MORI. The survey, for The Sun, shows half (52%) of people aged 15-17 say they have been the victim of any crime in the past year, compared with two in five (40%) people aged 18-24 and less than a third (30%) of all people aged 16+.

Q1 Which two or three of these do you think would do most to reduce crime in Britain?

The Home Office has recently published in-depth MORI findings on public confidence in the criminal justice system www.homeoffice.gov.uk/rds/pdfs04/r221.pdf — pdf document, 120K

The public favour providing women offenders with drug treatment, mental health care and community sentences rather locking them up, according to new research from MORI for the Fawcett Society.