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I cannot give you hard numbers but, to my mind, the recidivism rate is much lower than it was in the past, so in that respect the number of new sex offences has been reduced. With any crime, there will always be new offences carried out by the new and upcoming generation, in t...
The very same people who are currently employed in highly skilled refitting, engineering and technical jobs could be just as well employed on new ferries, new trains, new buses, magnetic resonance imaging or kidney machines and so on.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
21 October 2004
Implementation of those recommendations must surely be a priority that we would welcome. However, any new system for monitoring support must be workable.