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"The spotlight initiative": evidence from oral and maxillofacial surgery
1Oral Surgery Department, Monklands District General Hospital, Lanarkshire.
Scottish Medical Journal
|July 31, 1998
Abstract:
In 1996 Strathclyde Police launched a campaign in order to reduce crime, especially violent crime in the region. Surgical data have been previously suggested as a more accurate reflection of violent activity than police statistics. Whilst police figures record success in reducing serious violent crime during this initiative, there was a slight increase in facial fractures resulting from assault in public places in the same period although this increase was not significant at the p < 0.05 level.