Thematic report on knife crime

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7th July 2011

The purpose of this inspection was to look at how the Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service has shaped their policy and guidance in relation to knife crime. We examined cases with a view to identifying and highlighting good practice as well as for compliance and possible policy/practice gaps and, where appropriate, making recommendations for improvement.

Footnotes

1. Public Service Reform (Scotland) Act 2010, Section 112
2. Criminal Proceedings in Scotland 2009-10
3. Section 17
4. Scottish Government Statistical Bulletin - Homicide in Scotland 2009/10
5. Tackling Knife Crime Together - review of local anti-knife crime projects, February 2011
6. Troublesome Youth Groups, gangs and knife carrying in Scotland
7. 'Gangs, Blades, Cops and Curfews: the Reality for Marginalised Youth in the West of Scotland' - Professor Ross Deuchar, 2011
8. 2009 HCJAC 89
9. Carrying of Knives (Scotland) Act 1993, Section 1
10. Added by the Offensive Weapons Act 1996
11. Added by the Custodial Sentences and Weapons (Scotland) Act 2007
12. Police Public Order and Criminal Justice (Scotland) Act 2006
13. Templeton V HMA 2008 (unreported)
14. Mackenzie v Vannet 1999 JC 44
15. Criminal Procedure (Scotland) Act 1995, Section 22 - police may liberate a person charged with an offence on an undertaking that they will appear at the Sheriff Court on a specified time and date
16. Criminal Proceedings etc (Reform) (Scotland) Act 2007

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