The “zero responders” – bystanders who proactively assist – play a pivotal role in the immediate response to crisis. They can be key players in preventing, reporting and containing a violent incident.
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Social support is particularly important to help process these traumatic events and promote recovery.
The violent attack in a Sydney shopping centre left seven people dead, including the attacker, and many more injured, horrifying the nation.
A look at what was happening in the lives of young people one year before they started carrying a weapon.
In the past year, black people were seven times more likely to be stopped and searched than white people.
Young people’s voices need to be heard if we are to solve the knife crime crisis.
Faced with cutbacks to youth services and limited opportunities, risk-taking behaviour can, for some, become highly alluring.
Stop and search and other police tactics cannot address the complicated social problems that are linked to knife crime.
The relationship between street slang used by young people and secret codes deployed by gang members is not always straightforward.
Gentrification happens when attempts to build bridges between disenfranchised people and their better-off peers go awry – but it doesn’t have to be this way.
In Scotland, researchers have been at the heart of police reforms – all very different to south of the border.
The boxing gym can be a place for young people to escape street life – but it’s also the home of a violent sport.
View from an expert in criminal justice – who also lives in one of the UK’s most deprived areas.
Vulnerable young people have been failed by austerity policies that have decimated the services meant to protect them.
In the UK, it’s possible to join the army as a soldier at the age of 16, with parental permission. Is it right?
A round up of evidence-based views on the knife crime epidemic – including what action is really needed to prevent more young lives being lost.
Knife crime incidents are individual tragedies, but rising homicide rates reveal a changing society which is ill at ease.
Previous policies aimed at ending gangs and youth violence have failed. The government should avoid the same mistakes.
Nations like Scotland and New Zealand have pioneered community-centred strategies to tackle knife crime – it’s time for the rest of the UK to follow suit.
Somali community leaders should help to foster links with their traditional culture.
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Lecturer in Policing Studies, School of Justice Studies., Liverpool John Moores University
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Professor In Criminology, Staffordshire University
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Senior Lecturer in Criminology and Criminal Justice, University of Manchester
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Senior Lecturer in Criminology, Edge Hill University
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Professor of Criminology, University of Hull
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Professor of Criminology and Youth Justice and Director of the Manchester Centre for Youth Studies, Manchester Metropolitan University
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Director of Slang and New Language Archive, Faculty of Arts and Humanities, King's College London
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Associate Professor in North American History, University of Birmingham
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Senior Research Fellow at Veterans and Families Institute, Anglia Ruskin University
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Senior Lecturer in Criminology, University of Brighton
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Research Fellow (Henry Jackson Society - Centre on Radicalisation & Terrorism), Royal Holloway University of London
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Chair of the Policing Institute for the Eastern Region, Anglia Ruskin University
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Senior Lecturer in Criminology, University of Lincoln
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Professor of Public Services Research, Anglia Ruskin University
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Senior Lecturer, Department of Sociology, Manchester Metropolitan University
