As Andy Burnham faces the latest phase of the crisis, he’s proposed releasing more women prisoners early and tackling notorious indefinite IPP sentences. Between Sir Keir Starmer’s resignation and Andy Burnham’s rise to power, a lot has happened in the past couple of months. According to the Crime Survey of England and Wales, headline crime hit a high of 19,786 incidents in 1995 and has been on a clear downward trend since then. It’s ‘not the consequence of a considered strategy as the most effective measure to reduce crime’, the review says. When a crime takes place, it’s hard to think of a question other than: ‘How many years should this person be locked up?’