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A lot of the evidence shows that it is often family, friends or close colleagues who recognise a change in behaviour or a breakdown in relationships, so peer-to-peer support is really important.
We mentioned the Sturrock inquiry, which involved a set of conditions that did not encourage kindness but which did encourage certain behaviours that had quite a detrimental impact on staff who were working in that situation and the patients whom they were there to serve.
That focus on public health interventions and on changing people’s behaviours is really important. The report indicates that it is still relatively early days for that.
The focus of the bill is clearly on influencing individuals’ behaviour or restricting access, but there is a need to address things at a wider level, as well.
In my view, the system serves three fundamental functions: to provide security to our communities and people, to reform behaviour and to facilitate payback to communities.
We know that in Scottish society there remain some problematic attitudes to rape but also to women’s sexual behaviour. That is helpful—thank you. My second question is to Ronnie Renucci of the Faculty of Advocates.
That is even more the case, I suggest, for long-term prisoners, and it is really important that we are able to monitor their behaviour, where they are living and so on.