Category: Criminal Justice • Page 2
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What is the point of Non-Crime Hate Incidents?
Introduction Following the high-profile arrest of comedy writer Graham Linehan for three tweets, Metropolitan Police Commissioner Mark Rowley called on the government to “change or clarify” the law in...
11th September 2025
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Consultation on adding sex to the characteristics protected under the Hate Crime and Public Order (Scotland) Act 2021
The Scottish Government has opened a consultation on adding sex as a characteristic protected under the Hate Crime and Public Order (Scotland) Act 2021. The closing date for comments...
29th August 2025
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Predatory officers, collusion, and retaliatory complaints: Police Scotland’s hidden report on violence against women, sexism and misogyny
‘In the process of writing this report, we were often moved by the accounts we heard from officers and staff within Police Scotland. This includes those officers and staff...
26th August 2025
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How the Scottish Human Rights Commission responded to the placement of men in women’s prisons
Correspondence with the Scottish Human Rights Commission In June 2023 we met with the SHRC to discuss our strong concerns about its submission (2022) to the Scottish Prison Service...
1st August 2025
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A regressive step for Scottish policing: Police Scotland Interim transgender search guidance
Image: Progress flag at Police Scotland headquarters (posted on X 6 June 2024) 1. Introduction On 25 June 2025 Police Scotland published Interim guidance on Searching of transgender persons...
21st July 2025
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Prisons in Scotland: who is responsible?
On 25 April, following the judgment in the UK Supreme Court, we wrote to Angela Constance MSP, Cabinet Secretary for Justice, asking the Scottish Government to withdraw the Scottish...
11th July 2025
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Gender identity jargon vs inclusive communication: a case study
Image: Daily Mail 27 June 2025 Introduction Within the last decade, organisations have introduced jargon, derived from gender identity theory, that is hard to understand, inaccessible, or simply meaningless....
7th July 2025
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Police Scotland and the Sullivan Review: getting data collection back on track
Introduction The recent publication of the Sullivan Independent Review of Data, Statistics and Research on Sex and Gender, to which we provided support, has thrown a spotlight on data...
9th May 2025
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MBM statement on adding ‘sex’ to the Hate Crime and Public Order Act (Scotland) 2021
Introduction The Scottish Government has announced today that it will bring forward an Order to add “sex” as a protected characteristic to the Hate Crime and Public Order (Scotland)...
2nd May 2025
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Scottish Prison Service policy: a stain on Scotland’s reputation
Call for urgent Ministerial action We have written to the Cabinet Secretary for Justice. In the absence of immediate action by the Scottish Prison Service (SPS), it now falls...
26th April 2025