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	<description>One life. Live it.</description>
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		<title>What is &#8220;reasonable force&#8221; in a riot?</title>
		<link>http://www.stevebaker.info/2011/08/what-is-reasonable-force-in-a-riot/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Aug 2011 07:38:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Baker</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As Londoners take to defending their own lives, property and communities, it seems the state is failing in its first duty: to defend life, liberty and property. A good number of my constituents have written &#8212; dismayed by the shameful, reckless behaviour they have seen on TV &#8212; demanding that tougher action be taken with ]]></description>
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		<title>Philip Lawrence&#8217;s widow urges reform of human rights laws after killer Learco Chindamo recalled to prison &#8211; Telegraph</title>
		<link>http://www.stevebaker.info/2010/11/philip-lawrences-widow-urges-reform-of-human-rights-laws-after-killer-learco-chindamo-recalled-to-prison-telegraph/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Nov 2010 09:42:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Baker</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[David Cameron is under pressure to deliver on a promise to reform the Human Rights Act following the disclosure that the foreign-born murderer of Philip Lawrence has been arrested on suspicion of another violent attack. via Philip Lawrence&#8217;s widow urges reform of human rights laws after killer Learco Chindamo recalled to prison &#8211; Telegraph. I ]]></description>
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		<title>Sycamore Tree &#124; Prison Fellowship</title>
		<link>http://www.stevebaker.info/2010/11/sycamore-tree-prison-fellowship/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Nov 2010 08:00:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Baker</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A couple of weeks back, I visited a prison to see the Sycamore Tree Prison Fellowship in action, delivering victim awareness and restorative justice. I was able to see prisoners take clear responsibility for their actions and the hurt and harm caused to victims. It was moving to see men (in this case) whose lives have ]]></description>
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		<title>On trial by jury</title>
		<link>http://www.stevebaker.info/2010/01/on-trial-by-jury/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Jan 2010 11:03:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Baker</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Via The Last Ditch: Another step toward the abyss: I despair. The right to trial by jury has protected Englishmen from an over-mighty state since long before democracy was born. Combined with the Great Writ of habeas corpus, it meant you could not be detained without trial and that your trial must be by 12 ]]></description>
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		<title>The Law in Action in Wycombe</title>
		<link>http://www.stevebaker.info/2009/11/the-law-in-action-in-wycombe/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Nov 2009 23:59:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Baker</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I spent this morning in the public gallery of one of Wycombe&#8217;s Magistrates&#8217; courts. What I saw could have been a study for the Centre for Social Justice. What I witnessed today included the following cases (I dispense with the details for obvious reasons): Casual theft by a man with a methadone problem. Taking a ]]></description>
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		<title>The Conservative Party &#124; News &#124; The drug and crime culture portrayed in &#8216;The Wire&#8217; is in British cities too</title>
		<link>http://www.stevebaker.info/2009/08/the-conservative-party-news-the-drug-and-crime-culture-portrayed-in-the-wire-is-in-british-cities-too/</link>
		<comments>http://www.stevebaker.info/2009/08/the-conservative-party-news-the-drug-and-crime-culture-portrayed-in-the-wire-is-in-british-cities-too/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Aug 2009 20:51:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Baker</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Via The Conservative Party &#124; News &#124; News &#124; The drug and crime culture portrayed in &#8216;The Wire&#8217; is in British cities too: In a keynote speech on crime and broken communities today, Chris Grayling has highlighted the “decade of neglect” under Labour – a decade in which “violence in our society has become a norm ]]></description>
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		<title>BBC NEWS &#124; UK &#124; First trial without jury approved</title>
		<link>http://www.stevebaker.info/2009/06/bbc-news-uk-first-trial-without-jury-approved/</link>
		<comments>http://www.stevebaker.info/2009/06/bbc-news-uk-first-trial-without-jury-approved/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Jun 2009 21:08:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Baker</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Court of Appeal has ruled that a criminal trial can take place at Crown Court without a jury for the first time in England and Wales. The Lord Chief Justice, Lord Judge, made legal history by agreeing to allow the trial to be heard by a judge alone. It is the first time the ]]></description>
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		<title>Child stabbings almost double in five years  &#8211; Telegraph</title>
		<link>http://www.stevebaker.info/2009/06/child-stabbings-almost-double-in-five-years-telegraph/</link>
		<comments>http://www.stevebaker.info/2009/06/child-stabbings-almost-double-in-five-years-telegraph/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Jun 2009 08:08:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Baker</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Via Child stabbings almost double in five years &#8211; Telegraph: Youngsters aged under 18 needing hospital treatment for wounds from a knife or sharp object have leapt up by 83 per cent since 2003, NHS figures show. There has also been a sharp rise in the number of children needing hospital treatment for any form ]]></description>
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		<title>CCF Seminar: knife and gun crime</title>
		<link>http://www.stevebaker.info/2009/05/ccf-seminar-knife-and-gun-crime/</link>
		<comments>http://www.stevebaker.info/2009/05/ccf-seminar-knife-and-gun-crime/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 28 May 2009 22:24:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Baker</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Updated Tonight, I heard some remarkable and shocking accounts of knife and gun crime in Britain and what is to be done about it. I&#8217;ll not repeat the accounts of the crimes themselves: some are too grotesque to publish here. And that is part of the problem. Some young people in some sections of society ]]></description>
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		<title>The Centre for Social Justice &#8211; Knife and gun crime</title>
		<link>http://www.stevebaker.info/2009/04/the-centre-for-social-justice-knife-and-gun-crime/</link>
		<comments>http://www.stevebaker.info/2009/04/the-centre-for-social-justice-knife-and-gun-crime/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Apr 2009 14:52:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Baker</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A moving article from Philippa Stroud at the Centre for Social Justice, laying out the root causes of social breakdown and explaining the possibilities for reversal: Society will always have a criminal element – those for whom it doesn’t matter what you do, they will decide to be aggressive and violent. But the level that ]]></description>
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