The Licensing Act 2003 came into force on November 24 2005. It established a single integrated scheme for licensing premises, dealing with alcohol, regulated entertainment and late night refreshment, and enabled flexible opening hours. The Home Office is leading an evaluation of the Act on levels of crime and disorder, using a range of measures at both a national and local level. The results from this evaluation will be published at the end of 2007.
In the meantime the Home Office has carried out a monitoring exercise carried out to get an indication of the change in police recorded crime following the introduction of the Licensing Act 2003. This paper builds on this, providing a more detailed analysis for data up to November 2006 and will contribute to the overall evaluation of the Act. It focuses on the types of offences that occur around licensed premises or can occur as a result of alcohol misuse, to see whether there was a change in recorded violent crime, disorder and criminal damage following the introduction of the Act in November 2005 and whether the timing of offences had changed.
August 15, 2007 at 7:05 am
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November 3, 2007 at 1:43 am
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May 25, 2008 at 3:53 pm
We keep the bars open late – we shut them down early – things don’t seem to change – and if they do, the tabloids cream that they are only getting worse. We need a fundamental change in our attitudes toward alcohol in this country -and that’s a whole lot tougher to accomplish than a simple change in licensing.
April 15, 2009 at 5:43 pm
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