Analysis of figures from the European Commission showed a 77 per cent increase in murders, robberies, assaults and sexual offences in the UK since Labour came to power.

The total number of violent offences recorded compared to population is higher than any other country in Europe, as well as America, Canada, Australia and South Africa...

UK is violent crime capital of Europe - Telegraph

Isnt it time we started getting tough with criminals and locking them up for their entire sentences and not letting them out to re offend. This report is a damning indightment of liberal justice.

Originally Posted by Midas

I know many will disagree, but I'm sure that repeated attempts at socialisation in respect of creating a society of people who expect without having contributed, who then find that life isn't what they expected without hard work, drive and determination on their part, has had a significant impact on crime.

The culture of a something for nothing society took root under the Thatcher administration. Many of the 3m unemployed were encouraged by the Thatcher government to claim sick benefits [which evolved into long term incapacity benefits] in order to hide the true high unemployment figures.

Children saw their parents sitting at home and being given money for nothing so the culture became entrenched among many claimant families who saw this as the norm. Once entrenched this was encouragement to others so inclined to use this method to milk the system.

This culture will prove much harder to end than its introduction. I am not relating this point to today's unemployed, made redundant through the banking crisis, but to the previous period of high employment where the determined hard core of undeserving claimants are unable to be prised away from their fraudulent and indolent life style.