How a new easier-to-prove offence allows the courts to deal more effectively with perpetrators of racial harassment.

Transcript -- The killing of Stephen Lawrence

Have you ever been the victim of crime?  Are you fearful of rising crime rates? Crime is one of contemporary society's most pressing social problems - how should we respond to it? This album visits various communities in the UK to explore issues of criminal justice and the introduction of possibly controversial crime control initiatives such as restorative justice, which involves offenders meeting their victims. It also looks at schemes tackling problems of racial violence and other anti-social behaviours. This material forms part of The Open University course D315 Crime, order and social control.