'I found my niche in prison'
BBC News Online talks to "career prisoner" turned probation officer Bob Turney about crime and punishment.

Watching out for the neighbours
Twenty years since the UK's first Neighbourhood Watch was set up - in Cheshire - there are now over 155,000 schemes across the UK.

'No joy' for car crime victims
On Cracking Crime day, BBC Ireland correspondent Denis Murray writes on the misery brought to families by the plague of so-called joyriding.

Behind bars: Prisoners' tales
Three inmates at a south Wales prison speak of their experiences of life under lock and key.

Survey reveals Scots crime fears
More than 75% of people in Scotland do not believe police can catch car thieves and housebreakers, a BBC survey finds.