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Acknowledgements
This research has been facilitated by the support and guidance of a large number of individuals. The authors wish to thank the Scottish Executive Social Research project managers for overseeing this research so effectively: Liz Shevlin, Liz Levy and Dave Fitch. We are also grateful to the members of the research advisory group for sharing their knowledge and providing expert input: David Bookbinder, Cathie Fancy, David Fotheringham Bryan Healy, Eleanor Lee, Mark McCall, Mike McCormick, Gregor McKenzie, Robert Nicol, David Olgivie, Gordon Paterson, Trish Pryce, Kenny Simpson and Donald Urquhart.
We are particularly grateful to our lead contact officers in the case study local authorities for their considerable assistance in facilitating this research and responding to our frequent requests in such a helpful manner: Donald Urquhart and Jim Hunter (Edinburgh); Sharon Turnbull (Fife); Gregor McKenzie (North Lanarkshire) and Colin Bain, Cathie Fancy and Kerr Scott (Scottish Borders). We appreciate the involvement of the Fife, Lothian and Borders and Strathclyde police force data analysts who provided some of the statistics presented in this report. Thanks are also due to the many individuals in local agencies and organisations who helped to enable the research activities to take place and who provided important insights into the study. Due to numbers and in some cases the need for confidentiality we have not listed all of these individuals here. We are however very grateful for their assistance, without which this research would not have been possible.
We wish to acknowledge Bill Dickson and his colleagues at Management Information Scotland Ltd for conducting the household survey so efficiently and the crucial role played by our colleague Emma McCoulough in undertaking the interviews with victims and witnesses of antisocial behaviour.
Finally, we wish to thank all of the residents in the case study neighbourhoods who gave up their time to take part in our research. We especially appreciate the courage of those who told us about their direct experiences of antisocial behaviour. Their involvement has contributed considerably to the findings of this research.
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