• Part of the multi-million dollar company's work is dealing with small-scale crime, like recovering fuel stolen from a petrol station.

    CNN: STORY HIGHLIGHTS

  • Figures show the number of young people killed year-on-year in violent crime is relatively small and volatile - apparently dramatic changes can be statistically misleading.

    BBC: Analysis: UK gun crime figures

  • "But where less serious injuries have been caused, we believe taxpayers' money is better spent providing support and help rather than what are often small payments well after the crime has been committed, " a spokesperson said.

    BBC: A victim of crime

  • Which leads, further, to one piece of radical common sense: since prison plays at best a small role in stopping even violent crime, very few people, rich or poor, should be in prison for a nonviolent crime.

    NEWYORKER: The Caging of America

  • "For the first time, they'll be organised around the convenience of the citizen - from small businesses and young mothers to victims of crime - rather than the bureaucracy of government, " he said.

    BBC: People on internet

  • Then peers polish off the Crime and Courts Bill and the Small Charitable Donations Bill - it looks as if the calculation is that there won't be much controversy on either, because they then move onto what looks like a pretty major debate on the Leveson report on press standards.

    BBC: Week ahead

  • Det Insp Dave Lawson said he believed the police approach this year was "more joined up" and would concentrate on the small number of people they believe are usually responsible for crime at the event.

    BBC: NEWS | UK | England | Northamptonshire | Grand Prix fraudsters targeted

  • Many small firms, already struggling with high interest rates, a skills shortage, crime and a stagnant economy may go bankrupt.

    ECONOMIST: Race, law and poverty in the new South Africa | The

  • The individual health risk from radiation exposure at Fukushima is very small, he contends, no higher than the risk of death from violent crime in Japan.

    FORBES: How To Quell Radiation Fears? 'Test Everybody'

  • It was an application of what would become famous as the "broken windows" theory, which held that even small signs of disorder would, if left untended, breed further disorder, crime and fear.

    WSJ: The Weekend Interview with William Bratton: The Real Cures for Gun Violence

  • Instead, small acts of social engineering, designed simply to stop crimes from happening, helped stop crime.

    NEWYORKER: The Caging of America

  • She did not appear to cry, as she did during the viewing of chilling crime-scene footage on Tuesday, but she blinked, looked down and exhibited small, absent-minded jaw movements.

    CNN: Andrea Yates case: Expert says children suffered 'slow death'

  • Spokesmen for the small and electorally weak parties linked to Protestant paramilitaries say publicly that they wish their communities would take complaints about local crime to the police, instead of demanding paramilitary action.

    ECONOMIST: Northern Ireland

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