“Contrary to popular belief and previous Government reports, juries actually convict more often than they acquit in rape cases” concludes Professor Cheryl Thomas of University Col

The latest data on hospital admissions for assault bring little comfort to the Home Office’s Tackling Knives Action Programme, launched in ten areas in June 2008.

Baroness Stern, charged by Harriet Harman to conduct a review into the way rape cases are handled, told the Evening Standard that being drunk was no defence. For the man, that is: she seems to take a different view of drunken women.

“Police ignore a third of violent crime” according to a headline in The Times. Happily, they don’t.

Ed Balls, the children’s secretary, has said that parents who look after each other’s children will not have to undergo criminal record checks and take childcare courses to make their arrangements legal.

Eating sweets as a child increases your risk of violence thirty years later, according to almost every single media outlet today (the BBC, the Daily Mail, the Daily Express, The Independent, the Daily Mirror, The Sun, the Daily Record, and the Herald).

Are there really 11.3 million adults in the UK who could pose a risk to children?

The Home Office claims that violence against women and girls costs £40.1 billion a year. That’s a very big claim.

For years the Home Office and the former Lord Chancellor’s Department have misled the media about rape statistics – and allowed the media to misinform the public.