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1. ' Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service (2005) Sectarian/Religiously Aggravated Crime: An analysis of the first 6 months (Edinburgh: Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service) http://www.crownoffice.gov.uk/Resource/Doc/9/0000077.pdf.
2. Which will be referred to as June - December 2004, January - June 2005 and June - December 2005 throughout the remainder of this report.
3. This is an aggregate figure that includes different types of assault charges including police assault.
4. The remaining 13 cases were dispersed across a range of other charges which cannot be detailed here due to data protection.
5. As all the offences within a football stadium occurred in Glasgow the proportions for all other areas in Glasgow were skewed when being compared to Lanarkshire. As a result, offences located within a football stadium were omitted when calculating all the figures in this paragraph.
6. Community denotes groups within the general public for instance passers by, neighbours, football supporters, March participants and so on.
7. Civilian can include an individual known or unknown to the accused.
8. Worker includes a member of staff in the leisure industry, transport or hospital.
9. The level of information provided in the police reports is inconsistent whereby it is not standard practice to document the role of alcohol. Further to this, the inconsistency also means that it is impossible to establish when there are multiple accused within one case whether all or one of the accused was under the influence. Within the 242 cases where the police stipulated the accused was under the influence 38 of these cases have more than one accused.
10. When documenting the information within the police reports the contextual information (location, time and description of the incident) was taken into consideration and it was noted whether the accused was "likely" to be under the influence of alcohol.
11. The remaining 4 cases cannot be disclosed due to data protection.
12. When documenting the information of football related incidents consideration was not only given to football games but also language that referred to a particular football team and reference to football regalia/symbols. This may reflect the difference in the figure provided by COPFS.
13. The remaining case cannot be disclosed due to data protection.
14. The location of the remaining case cannot be disclosed due to data protection.
15. A detailed breakdown of football games when the offence occurred within a football stadium cannot be presented due to data protection.
16. Due to court processes disposals can be related to a number of different charges for the one accused. This figure represents cases where the disposal was solely for one charge with a religious aggravation.
17. Please note that no information was available on the victims' religion.
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