Civil liberties - new material (38)
01 March 2000
Free Press Campaign for Press and Broadcasting Freedom, No 115 (March-April) 2000, pp8. This issue contains articles on the Freedom of Information Bill and a piece by Stephen Dorril on government efforts to gag and intimidate journalists reporting on cases involving security and intelligence matters.
The perils of nuance, H Guldberg. Index on Censorship Vol 29 no 2, 2000, pp32-33. Even more than a Freedom of Information Act, the UK needs a change in its biggest gagging device - the world's most draconian libel laws.
The domestic violence arrest decision: examining demographic, attitudinal, and situational variables, AL Robinson & MS Chandek, Crime and Delinquency vol 46 no 1 (January) 2000, pp118-37. The effects of demographic, attitudinal and situational variables on the domestic violence arrest decision were investigated using official data and officer attitudinal data. The authors examined some variables never before studied in this context (eg the demographic characteristics of officers) and improved on the measurement of many variables (eg victims cooperativeness, victim injury and time of shift).
Police response to domestic violence: from victim to empowerment: C Hoyle & A Sanders. British Journal of Criminology vol 40 no 1 (Winter) 2000, pp4-36. This article explores the neglected question of why victims of domestic violence call the police and how useful the police response is to them. The authors' found that many women do not seek criminal sanctions because sanctions are unlikely to help to end the violence. This calls into question the value, to victims, of mandatory arrest policies which require prosecution decisions to be based on evidential concerns alone. The authors' argue for an approach which would empower victims to make choices which are less coerced than is usual.
Parliamentary debates
Anti-social Behaviour Orders Commons 1.2.00. cols. 137WH-157WH
Children's Ombudsman Commons 15.2.00. cols. 923-930
The Rowntree Report Lords 16.2.00. cols. 1233-1305
Anti-drugs Co-ordinator Commons 22.2.00. cols. 341WH-350WH
Drug Misuse Commons 29.2.00. cols. 17WH-24WH
Protection of Human Genetic Sequence Commons 8.3.00. cols. 1007-1009
ECHR Judgement (Thompson and Venables) Commons 13.3.00. cols. 21-30