ABSTRACT
The problem of violence in our society is currently alarming the public and preoccupying the authorities. Such high profile cases as the massacre of the innocents at Dunblane in 1996 (when 16 children and their teacher were murdered by a paranoid gunman) and the murder of Mr Zito (see p 3) have sharpened awareness, and there has been the advent of new variants on violence: ‘road rage’ and ‘stalking’ in their most serious manifestations.
