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The Independent (Free subscription) | 22/06/2008
Knife crime on the increase, binge drinking out of control, teenage abortions rising every year – is there ever any good news about the young? If the Government's justice expert Louise Casey had her way, young offenders would be doing community work wearing fluorescent vests so we can give them a wide berth. What's wrong with black marks on their foreheads or a compulsory short back and sides?
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Aberavon & Neath Liberal Democrats (Free subscription) | 21/06/2008
Last Wednesday (18 June), Louise Casey (an adviser to former Prime Minister Tony Blair) delivered to the present PM a review of the criminal justice system. She also went public on it here . Liberal Democrat Shadow Home Secretary, Chris Huhne said: "Louise Casey’s tough-talking policies on anti-social behaviour have failed, so why should we take her seriously again? "If public humiliation worked, we...
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The Telegraph (Free subscription) | 20/06/2008
Louise Casey has found favour with the public and politicians due to the common sense in her report on justice.
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Obsolete (Free subscription) | 19/06/2008
It can't be a bad life being Louise Casey, former "respek" tsar and now delivering blue sky thinking on the criminal justice system as a whole. No doubt being generously remunerated, she last week received the Order of the Bath in the Queen's birthday honours . Not bad for what most people consider the most heinous of failures, as the anti-social behaviour order thinking which she did so much to influence...
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Times Online - Camilla Cavendish (Free subscription) | 19/06/2008
The public is not daft,” says the refreshingly blunt Louise Casey, government crime adviser. Too right. We see ministers demanding tougher sentences and instructing earlier release. We see police forces spending ten times more on PR (what they want us to know) than on freedom of information (what we want to know). We wonder whether blokes on community sentences will wear Ms Casey's fluorescent “Convict!”...
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Liberal Democrats (Free subscription) | 19/06/2008
Commenting on Louise Casey’s review of the criminal justice system, Liberal Democrat Shadow Home Secretary, Chris Huhne said: "Louise Casey’s tough-talking policies on anti-social behaviour have failed, so why should we take her seriously again? "If public humiliation worked, we would never have abolished the village stocks. "We need fewer gimmicks and more delivery: the probation service is over-loaded...
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edparsons.com (Free subscription) | 18/06/2008
Over the past few months Crime Mapping has floated up the political agenda, reaching the mainstream with Boris Johnson’s recent call for crime mapping, echoed by the Guardian’s Free our Data campaign, and this morning followed up by the reporting of Louise Casey’s Cabinet Office report. You would think from the media, that this is something [...]
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The Guardian (Free subscription) | 18/06/2008
A report compiled by government adviser Louise Casey has found that the majority of people believe that crime is on the increase and that the courts are too concerned with the rights of criminals. Do you agree?
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The Policeman's Blog (Free subscription) | 18/06/2008
Louise Casey used to be Tony Blair's Respect 'Czar'. We've got nothing against Louise, and nothing - certainly - against attempts to reintroduce respect into British life. Did she succeed? Well, not so as you'd notice. This Guardian profile makes interesting reading. "In the past nine years," it says, "Louise Casey has made her mark in some high-profile government-appointed positions tackling major...
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A WORLD TO WIN www.aworldtowin.net (Free subscription) | 18/06/2008
Louise Casey is an archetypal New Labour apparatchik. She doesn’t care too much about human rights (if at all) and believes that the state’s priority is to identify and punish people as a way of changing behaviour. Listening to her is enough to make the hair on the back of your neck stand up. Casey is a classic case of a poacher turned gamekeeper. She made her name in the housing world, rising to deputy...
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10 Yetis Blog (Free subscription) | 18/06/2008
Andy's choice... Good PR Louise Casey, the former head of Tony Blair's Respect task force has come up with some criminal reform proposals that actually sound like they could work. As part of her report on how to reform criminals two proposals have specifically caught my eye; she has suggested that posters of criminals who have been convicted for social offences be put up around their home towns and...
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Tangled Blog (Free subscription) | 18/06/2008
Well, I agree with some of her observations but not many of her conclusions. I refer to the the new report issued by Louise Casey into the judicial system in England and Wales. She says that the public should be told more about criminals so they no longer feel "cut off" from the justice system in England and Wales. I agree. But I don't want to know their life stories, I just want to know that justice...
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10 Downing Street News (Free subscription) | 17/06/2008
Louise Casey, former adviser on Respect, will take part in a live webchat in Number 10 on the Criminal Justice System on 19 June at 14:00 BST.
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The Guardian (Free subscription) | 16/06/2008
Comment is free: David Howarth: Public humiliation is the main theme of Louise Casey's report on justice. Why not just bring back the stocks?
