article_snippet: Justice Secretary Chris Grayling said: ‘Labour’s justice policies are pretty thin on the ground at the best of times, but this latest contribution hardly seems a sensible one.
article_snippet: ’ David Green, a criminologist and director of the Civitas think-tank, said: ‘What any sensible legal system is doing is weighing up the degree of moral responsibility of the person who perpetrated the act.
article_snippet: Mr Lammy’s Policy Exchange report, which will be launched at a speech in London today, warns the police and the courts are turning a blind eye to property crime.
article_snippet: Some one in three burglaries and nine in ten shoplifting incidents are not reported to the police because the victims have no faith the case will be properly dealt with.
article_snippet: In many cases, the offenders simply don’t bother to pay.