Proceeding contribution from Baroness Stern (Crossbench) in the House of Lords on Wednesday, 5 March 2008. It occurred during Committee of the Whole House (HL) and Debate on bill on Criminal Justice and Immigration Bill.
Criminal Justice and Immigration Bill
I am sorry to interrupt but it is very important that we try to get to the bottom of this. The Minister talked a lot about what goes on in north London. Another thing that goes on is that certain groups of people do not like other groups of people. Some people say, ““There are three black boys there and I find that threatening””. Will that be reason enough to make an order, because those people happen to be young, they happen to be black, they laugh and shout and when you walk past you think that they are talking about you when of course they are not because they are talking about something else? Is there not a very real danger in what the Minister is trying to sell us that it simply becomes a way of trying to deal with community tensions rather than trying to resolve them? Is there not a danger that one may criminalise one segment of the population? Does the Minister accept that we risk that happening?
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- 699 c1173
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- 2007-08
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- House of Lords chamber
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- Data protection Criminal proceedings Administration of justice Crimes of violence Defamation Blasphemy Debt collection Personal records Privacy Young offenders Christianity Self-defence
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- Criminal Justice and Immigration Bill 2006-07 to 2007-08
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