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“McConnell in dock as crime fines written off ” Evening News
“Crime and punishment ” Evening News
“Knife crime described as national scandal” Scottish TV
“Play tackles knife culture” Evening Times
“Fresh fears over forced marriages” BBC
See also
Dealing with cases of Forced Marriage - Guidelines for Police. ACPOS 24.2.03.
Also
CjScotland 20.1.05: Campaigners and police confer on forced marriages.
CjScotland 30.11.04: Forced marriage research calls for funds.
“Call for drive to defeat domestic violence” Independent
“Widen the net: rampant violence against women demands a new approach” Guardian
Press release
“Ending violence against women in UK - Report calls for new approach from government ” Amnesty International and the Women’s National Commission
See also
What a Waste: The Case For An Integrated Violence Against Women Strategy .
“Rise in locked-up asylum children” Herald
“Fears at detention of child asylum seekers” Scotsman
“Child detention regulation urged ” BBC
“Attack on detention of children” Scottish TV
See also
Save the Children UK: No Place for a Child.
Also
CjScotland 14.9.04: Imprisonment of children in Dungavel.
“Number in Scotland’s jails hits new high” Times
“Prison levels hit a new peak” Daily Record 26.2.05
“Prison population hits new high” BBC
Press release
“Provisional prison statistics, Scotland 2004” SPS
“Muslim group attack on Sarwar over terror laws” Herald
“Anti-terrorist strategy” Herald
“Clarke expected to cave in on terror law row” Herald
“Clarke woos the Lib Dems over terror law proposals ” Scotsman
“Clarke tackles rebels over anti-terror Bill” Times
“Rebels demand last-minute concessions on house arrests” Independent
“Clarke acts to head off terror revolt ” Guardian
“Terror laws threaten human rights, MPs say” Independent
“House arrest for terror suspects ‘may breach human rights law’ “
Evening News 25.2.05
“Lords ‘will defeat terror Bill’” Independent
“Blair hints at compromise in row over house arrest proposals ” Scotsman
“Blair hints at role for judges in house arrests” Times
“Judges to rule on terror orders ” Observer
“Civil liberties are not luxuries” Sunday Herald
“Blair set to force terror law past Lords ” Scotland on Sunday
See also
Joint Committee On Human Rights - Prevention of Terrorism Bill: Preliminary Report
“Councils yet to issue ASBO to under-16 in ‘neds crackdown’ ” Scotland on Sunday
Posted by MM on Mon 28th Feb 2005 at 8:25 amUpdate 28.2.05
“I’ve seen too much knife horror in city” Evening Times
“Top doctor calls for action on knife crime” Evening Times
“1 in 3 murders committed by men under age of 21” Evening Times
Update 21.2.05
“Ten Scots are knifed every day” Times
Following published on 16.2.05.
“We’ll cut violent crime in just 3 years” Evening Times
“Police try to map route to violence” Herald
“Strathclyde police launch new plan to tackle violent crime ” Scottish TV
“Violent crime soars in Glasgow” Evening Times
“Stabbed in back at 14 - the knife culture that shames city”
Evening Times
“1 in 6 people searched by police carries a knife” Evening Times 21.2.05
Press release
“Police Unit Launched to Tackle Violent Crime” Strathclyde Police
Some related posts
CjScotland 18.12.04: Call for review of knife laws as level of related violence described as “public health issue”.
CjScotland 23.2.04: Police call for access to hospital records to pursue unreported violence
“Only one name on threat-to-children list ” Evening News
“‘One name’ on danger adults list ” BBC
“Parents warned of police checks at schools ” Evening News
See also
Protection of Children (Scotland) Act 2003