FEATURE: Violent Disorder Needs A New Kind Of Cure

Violence is a disease
By treating violence as a public health issue, Scotland’s Violence Reduction Unit (VRU) broke ranks from the conventional law and order model to create a proactive multi-agency approach that has clear lessons for those tackling the more ‘mundane’ issues of anti-social behavior.  Mark Cantrell wrote about the organisation in the September 2012 edition of Housing...

“The sin is ignorance,” said Detective Chief Superintendent John Carnochan;...