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1. Crime Reduction and Community Safety Group Business Plan
2003-04
http://www.homeoffice.gov.uk/docs2/crimeredbuspl
This document describes the UK Government’s Business plan on reducing
crime and safeguarding the community through targets and specific plans
on how to achieve them.
2. Crime
Reduction
http://www.crimereduction.gov.uk
The Crime Reduction Website aims to provide community safety and crime
prevention practitioners with information and advice to reduce crime and
anti-social behaviour in their local area.
3. Crime and
Policing
http://www.homeoffice.gov.uk/crimpol/crimprev/index
These pages give information on the British government’s efforts to fight
crime through crime reduction, policing, crime prevention advice, and
information on firearms legislation and gun crime, business and retail
crime and anti social behaviour.
4. Organised and International Crime
http://www.homeoffice.gov.uk/crimpol/oic/index
These pages provide details about extradition, encryption and the
Proceeds of Crime Act, all of which are relevant in the fight against
organised international crime.
5. Narrowing the Justice Gap: A Framework Document
http://www.homeoffice.gov.uk/justice/justicegap
The Justice Gap Taskforce (comprised of senior members from each of
the Criminal Justice System (CJS) agencies and chaired by Moira Wallace,
Director General of the Home Office’s Criminal Policy Group) has produced
a Narrowing the Justice Gap framework document which begins to identify
the causes of the Justice Gap and ways of addressing it.
6. Terrorism
http://www.homeoffice.gov.uk/terrorism/index
This link provides information and advice on what the UK government is
doing to combat terrorism.
7. Immigration and Nationality Directorate
http://www.ind.homeoffice.gov.uk/
As part of the Home Office, the Immigration and Nationality Directorate
is responsible for immigration control and sea and airports throughout
the United Kingdom. This website helps understand UK immigration control
and the rights and responsibilities of applicants.
8. Criminal Justice System Online
http://www.cjsonline.gov.uk/home
CJS Online has been developed as part of modernising government
agenda, to establish a consolidated criminal justice system (CJS)
presence on the Internet and reflect the continued commitment to deliver
quality services which reflect both the citizens' needs and those working
within the CJS.
9. Justice and Victims
http://www.homeoffice.gov.uk/justice/index
Reform of the Criminal Justice System (CJS) aims to put the needs of
victims and witnesses at its heart. This will ensure that victims and
witnesses see justice done more often and more quickly whilst being
treated with the respect and dignity that they deserve. This link
provides links to Victim’s Charter, Victim Personal Statement,
Compensation, Release of Prisoners, Training of Criminal Justice
Professionals and Restorative Justice.
10. Victim Support and Witness Service
http://www.victimsupport.org.uk/
Victim Support is the independent charity, which helps people cope with
the effects of crime.
11. Courts and Legal Process
http://www.homeoffice.gov.uk/justice/legalprocess/index
At the heart of the criminal justice system is the legal process -
ensuring that the law is enforced fairly and transparently.
12. Reducing Delays
http://www.homeoffice.gov.uk/justice/legalprocess/courts/delays.html
This part of the home office website contains Home Office circulars and
documents on reducing delays in the delivery of criminal justice.
13. Citizen’s Arena
http://www.cjsonline.gov.uk/citizen/index
This part of the Criminal Justice System website provides information to
citizens on the working of the criminal justice system in the UK with
specific information to victims, witnesses, and defendants.
14. Court Service
http://www.courtservice.gov.uk/
The Court Service which is an executive agency of the Department for
Constitutional Affairs provides administrative support to a number of
courts and tribunals, including the High Court, the Crown Court and the
county courts.
15. Criminal Courts Review
http://www.criminal-courts-review.org.uk/
The Lord Chancellor, Lord Falconer, has appointed Lord Justice Auld to
report on the working of the criminal courts by the end of 2000. Learn
about his work and contact him through these pages.
16. Crown Prosecution Service
http://www.cps.gov.uk/
The CPS is the UK Government Department, which prosecutes people in
England and Wales who have been charged by the police with a criminal
offence.
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1. Department of Constitutional Affairs
http://www.dca.gov.uk/
The main departmental role of the Department for Constitutional Affairs
is to secure the efficient administration of justice in England and Wales.
2. General Council of the Bar
http://www.barcouncil.org.uk/
The Bar Council is the regulatory and representative body for barristers
in England and Wales. It deals with the qualification and conduct rules
governing barristers, as well as complaints against barristers.
3. LEXICON
http://www.courtservice.gov.uk/lexicon/
Comprehensive portal to key legal sources on the Internet.
4. British and Irish legal materials
www.bailii.org.uk
Visit this site for the most comprehensive set of British and Irish legal
materials available free and in one place. It includes 34 databases
containing around 475,000 searchable documents.
5. Cambridge University's Law Faculty
www.law.cam.ac.uk
Cambridge University's Law Faculty website
offers legal resources and a range of links such as "Law Journals on
the WWW" and "UK Legal Career Information".
6. Selected Judgements
www.courtservice.gov.uk/judgements/judg_home.htm
This is a useful library of law reports from selected high court cases
and the Court of Appeal. Search and navigation are very user friendly.
7. HMS Online
http://www.hmso.gov.uk/acts.htm
This part of the home office website contains Home Office circulars and
documents on reducing delays in the delivery of criminal justice.
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