LABOUR
LIBERAL DEMOCRATS
CONSERVATIVES
COMMENTARY
Labour’s manifesto contains a general ambition to take a more prevention focus to youth offending, while the Lib Dems want to expand the previous government’s initiatives to develop a public health approach to tackling violent crime.
Hot on the heels of the previous government’s policy to recruit an additional 20,000 police officers, the Conservatives have pledged the most in tackling offending.
Alongside continuing to invest in violence reduction units, it has made a series of controversial pledges to expand stop and search and fast-track through the courts those found to be carrying knives illegally.
If elected, it is likely the Conservatives will push ahead with plans to develop secure schools as alternatives to secure training centres and young offender institutions.
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