I just stumbled across a web log for criminal justice in the U.K.  It has so much interesting information in it that I might find myself obsessed.  Sort of like watching the emergency crews at a accident scene.  It's a tradegy and there's nothing you can really do but see the mess the victim is in.  This site is filled with stuff like this:

• Independent: Don't worry about armed burglars, says Met chief
• Observer: Victims do have rights, but so do criminals
• icNetwork: Top lawyer backs burglar protection
• Mirror: Burglars have got rights too
• Telegraph: Burglars have rights too
• Scotsman: Government 'Sending Out Mixed Message over Tackling Burglars'
• Guardian: Goldsmith on burglars' rights

And:

• Telegraph: Under-18s face knife ban
• Washington Times: Knife-buying age to rise in Britain
• Evening Standard: Move to ban under-18s buying knives
• Guardian: 'No knives before 18' proposal
• icNetwork: Bereaved families in knife campaign
• icNetwork: Blunkett's knife plan condemned
• Scotsman: 'Make Knives Equal Guns' Say Stabbing Families
• Independent: 'Make knives equal guns' say stabbing families
• BBC: Victims' families knife law call

I've just barely begun to read the material and I'm all the more of the opinion that the U.K. is headed for disaster and the better option for crime control is to give enable the potential victims to give the universal hand signal for “GO AWAY!”.  Of course Kim du Toit has a reasonable approach as well:

...shoot the fucking goblin in the heart, at least twice, with a .45 pistol.

That is what Greg Hamilton calls, “the universal hand signal for LIE DOWN!”.