http://www.theherald.co.uk/features/60508.html
"Some Scottish councils that have used them for 16-year-olds and over have found them effective. Other local authorities are reluctant to use them, preferring to deploy strategies that change behaviour rather than labelling some as troublemakers. Councils whose residents are suffering disproportionately from youth crime have been among those granting markedly fewer orders than elsewhere. Glasgow City Council, for example, took the view that intervening to prevent youth crime was more effective than using the executive's sanctions. Both sides in this argument have some merit.
