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An invitation to clarify the law, and national attitudes



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Published Date: 05 March 2008
THIS summer, a particularly titillating set of images will hit billboards across Scotland. Featuring women dressed provocatively, some of them flirting or seemingly tipsy, they will be the sort of pictures advertising campaigns routinely use these days in order to set pulses racing.
There will be just one difference. These adverts won't be for Armani or Agent Provocateur. For underneath them will be the shocking words: "This isn't an invitation to rape me".

The adverts are the brainchild of Rape Crisis Scotland, and are base...



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  • Last Updated: 04 March 2008 10:35 PM
  • Source: The Scotsman
  • Location: Edinburgh
  • Related Topics: Emma Cowing
 
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Hugh V McLachlan,

Elderslie 05/03/2008 08:53:15
'Scotland's low conviction rate is a national scandal.'

If the point of the courts is to produce a high conviction rate, the witchcraft trials in Scotland would have been, according to Emma Cowing's way of thinking, reasonably commendable. See: http://www.booksfromscotland.com/Features/Articles-and-Essays/Witchcraft-in-Early-Modern-Scotland

 

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