This has been a nasty little story, and opens up a new area for criminologists: crimes of the bureaucracy. There has allegedly been a great deal of abuse of power, partly because councils and social services have been able to use confidentiality as a means to prevent public scrutiny of their actions. There are many … MARK NEARY: VICTORY OVER AUTISTIC SON, 21, ‘TRAPPED IN CARE’

Quotation from the article in the Telegraph: “The Home Secretary, Theresa May, recently blamed police chiefs for creating most of the red tape that swamps their officers. “A great deal of the day-to-day bureaucracy that police officers encounter is actually generated by their own force,” she said. “Every single senior police officer should be asking … CHIEF’S WAR ON ‘JOBSWORTH’ POLICE

Sorry about the ad in this link. The story reminds us that bank robbers are still robbing banks. Organised crime still does the simple stuff as well as everything else.

Unpleasant stuff, but all part of the criminal picture. Report coming out in September by Bob Lambert.

This story continues to expand. This is a fairly tame version of the allegations now beginning to emerge. It’s not just the timescale that is changing, but the nature of the hacking, too. A new name has entered the frame as well…I’ll see if I can dig out the story from the Guardian.

This is the article I referred to in the previous posts. Some astonishing allegations in it about what a private detective may or may not have done for journalists…

They claim it was in retaliation for the arrest of three Spaniards alleged to be “core” members of the group

I referred to the role of bloggers in an earlier post about the Steven Neary case. Here’s One of them, with loads of links explaining the case in more depth.

Yet again, abuse of conventions against organised crime to arrest dpmestic dissidents. 32 members of Anonymous in Turkey? Yeah sure there are

I’d love to see empirical research comparing drug barons and US beef barons for fast food companies. But read and be outraged greenies!