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By Eve Livingston · BBC · June 2026
Scotland was the 'murder capital of Europe'. Then it started treating violence like a disease
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"In the early 2000s you were more three times more likely to be assaulted in Scotland than in the US, but the country now ranks among some of the safest in the world."

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