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Scottish Consortium on Crime and Criminal Justice
Prisoner population Friday 2nd February 2007
7153
Source: SPS
 
Quotation of the month
 
""whereas in democracies in which the respect for the rules of law is inherent, the fight against terrorism cannot be won by sacrificing or limiting the very principles that terrorism seeks to destroy, notably, the protection of human rights and fundamental freedoms must never be compromised; whereas terrorism can and must be fought by legal means and must be defeated while respecting international and national law""
 
European Parliament. Report on the alleged use of European countries by the CIA for the transportation and illegal detention of prisoners (final) 26.1.07.
 
 
 
Links to historical material on criminal justice in Scotland
 
If you have any suggestions for links to go on this page then please get in touch and let us know.
 
Museums, sites of interest
   
  Aberdeen Tolbooth Museum
  Inverary Jail
  Jedburgh Castle Jail & Museum
  Stirling Old Town Jail
  Glasgow Police Museum
  Strathclyde Police Museum
  Heatherbank Museum of Social Work Located at Glasgow Caledonian University.
   
Documents and other original sources
   
  Forensic Medicine Archives Project (Glasgow University)
   
  Glasgow Digital Library: Scottish Archive Network: Virtual Vault Scotland in the nineteenth century. An analytical bibliography of material relating to Scotland in parliamentary papers 1800 - 1900. Crime and punishment records.
     
  Glasgow University Library Special Collections. The history of crime and punishment in Britain 1790-1870. Illustrated collection of 'hanging broadsides' from Scotland and England with an introduction by Professor M. A. Crowther.
   
  National Library of Scotland
   
  Police Archives The archives of police forces in Glasgow and the West of Scotland from 1825 to the present day.
   
  Scottish Archive Network: Virtual Vault Sample archive material showing Madelaine Smith indictment (1857), arrest warrant for John Paul Jones (1770).
   
  The Scotsman Digital Archive 1817-1900
   
Historical projects and other reviews
   
  A Pictorial History of the Fife Police Also contains local material on history of justice.
   
  Henry Faulds Society Faulds was a 19C. fingerprint pioneer from Beith.
   
  History of Fingerprints A Time Line. Scottish Criminal Record Office.
   
  A Scottish Prison Timeline.
   
  Strathclyde Police on-line magazine
   
  The Survey of Scottish Witchcraft: 1563-1736. An electronic resource for the history of witchcraft and witch-hunting in Scotland. School of Scottish History, Edinburgh University.