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Name in lights

Hi everyone, You will have noticed the blog being quiet for the last week or so. It has been so for two reasons; firstly, i didnt want the great work of my guest bloggers to vanish into the Blogger abyss, and second, because i have been working hard on DJ 4.0. DJ 4.0 is currently in 'Beta' mode, meaning it is open for testing but is not live, however you can join up, begin discussions and play around with some new features right now if you wish. I have been advertising it occasionally on twit

Guest #8: My view on the London 'riots', by The Law Map

Visit The Law Map A section of the media, in particular The Guardian and The Independent had caught a section of the Conservatives gloating. Were the riots an inevitable offspring of David Cameron’s 'broken society'? The morning after rioting had subsided Cameron stood sullen in the presence of gathering microphones and cameras, his skin still glinting of the Tuscan sun. Politics is a waiting game. The nature of democratic politics lies in the art of making the impossible possible. The possi

Guest #7: ASB in 2012, by Bonnie

(Source) "Public perceptions vs. working realities" Over the many years I have worked in the area of Anti Social Behaviour (ASB), I find that every so often a few cases hit the headlines that are particularly poignant. For example, the Baby P and Fiona Pilkington cases. Not only are these cases shocking because of the tragic deaths of the victims but because their deaths are in part, due to failings by agencies that should have been protecting them. These cases are so atrocious that they ca