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10 Brit. J. Criminology 255 (1970)
The Carrying of Offensive Weapons

handle is hein.journals/bjcrim10 and id is 261 raw text is: THE CARRYING OF OFFENSIVE WEAPONS I.S.T.D. SCOTTISH BRANCH: GLASGOW WORKING PARTY * A CONSTRUCTIVE activity for the Scottish Branch of the Institute for the Study and Treatment of Delinquency has been the establishment in particular areas of local working parties who will concentrate on problems specific to their respective areas. Members of the working parties should ideally be drawn from a number of different disciplines. Problems studied should be of interest and concern to all members of the working parties so that they may participate not only in dis- cussion but also in the supplying and sifting of information. Some new light may be thrown on recurrent problems and, as a side benefit, members of these working parties will come to a greater understanding of the sort of role each profession has to play and the sort of problems facing each of them. This greater understanding may spill over out- side the working party and help towards increased mutual co-operation to which many now pay only lip service. The Glasgow Working Party was established at a conference in Strathclyde University on April 24, 1968. The members were elected from those present at this conference and include representatives from the judiciary, police, probation, school welfare, approved schools, borstals, prisons, child care, universities, etc. No topic was suggested at the conference. At the first meeting, the working party decided that, in view of all the concern being expressed in the city, the obvious topic to discuss was violence,. As a first exercise, this topic was further narrowed down to a study of offenders charged with the carrying of offensive weapons in 1965, the peak year for this offence in the city. This is a separate category from crimes of assault and serious assault involving the use of weapons. These crimes are not • The members of the working party were: Mr. John Anderson, social worker, Gorbals; Mr. Frank Coffield, lecturer, Jordanhill College; Brother Cuthbert, deputy headmaster. St. Ninians Approved School; Mr. Robin Hall, deputy headmaster, Kibble Approved School; Sheriff C. H. Johnston; Mr. R. Meek, assistant governor, Polmont Borstal; Mr. A. Meikle, deputy governor, Barlinnie Prison; Miss D. Mullins, school welfare officer, Glasgow; Mr. W. Murdoch, superintendent, Larchgrove Remand Home; Mr. W. A. Ratcliffe, Assistant Chief Constable, City of Glasgow Police; Mrs. E. B. Schaffer, psychologist, Douglas Inch Clinic; Mr. I. Stephen, psychologist, Douglas Inch Clinic; Mr. A. Wilson, Deputy Principal Probation Officer, Glasgow; Mr. James Wilson, head- master, Mossbank Approved School.

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