Victims of crime: Young and vulnerable

If you ask Bobbie, 20, about her experience as a victim of crime, you get a hollow laugh in return. "Which one do you want to hear about?" she asks.

Bobbie's experiences started when she was a teenager and continue today.

"I got married at 16 and my husband was very abusive and controlling," she says. "He used to drug my food and beat me if dinner wasn't ready. He was very violent. I was stabbed twice, and had my kneecap smashed with a baseball bat."

And only last month, Bobbie was a victim of theft. "It was a reasonably close friend," she says. "They stole my bank card and all my money from my flat. I phoned the police, cancelled my card, and then waited three days for the police to turn up. Three of them visited. One was sympathetic, one said nothing, and one said it was all my fault."