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In an effort to curb a dramatic increase in crime, the Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, has announced plans to adopt Glasgow’s highly successful strategies to decrease gang-related knife and gun crime. London’s crime wave has been well-documented over recent months. In June 2018, the city surpassed New York in the number of murders. By

Scotland’s ministers are set to hold a consultation on tackling misogynistic behaviour through strengthening criminal hate laws. The current laws in Scotland categorise a hate crime as crime aggravated by prejudice in one or more of the characteristics of race, religion, disability, sexual orientation and transgender. Earlier this year the hate crime legislation was reviewed

Statistics have been released which reveal a substantial drop in reconvictions in Scotland, with the number of offenders being reconvicted falling to a 19-year low. The National Statistics show that in 2015-16, almost three-quarters of people in Scotland who were released from prison or given a non-custodial sentence were not reconvicted within 12 months. This

With knife crime rising in England, attention has turned to Scotland where a continued fall in knife crime has been recorded over the past decade. There has been a conscious effort to see whether the successes and lessons learned in Scotland can be applied in London, where police figures have shown the most significant increase

Businesses in Scotland suffered losses of £1.8 million in the first half of 2018 compared to losses of £3.8 million in the same period last year, according to new data from KPMG. The report, which measures alleged fraud cases with losses of £100,00 or more within the UK courts, shows that Scotland is doing more