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A look at what was happening in the lives of young people one year before they started carrying a weapon.
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In the past year, black people were seven times more likely to be stopped and searched than white people.
Knife crime is at record levels across the UK.
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Young people’s voices need to be heard if we are to solve the knife crime crisis.
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Faced with cutbacks to youth services and limited opportunities, risk-taking behaviour can, for some, become highly alluring.
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Stop and search and other police tactics cannot address the complicated social problems that are linked to knife crime.
Slang: sometimes difficult to decipher.
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The relationship between street slang used by young people and secret codes deployed by gang members is not always straightforward.
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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.
Cressida Dick, Metropolitan Police Commissioner.
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In Scotland, researchers have been at the heart of police reforms – all very different to south of the border.
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The boxing gym can be a place for young people to escape street life – but it’s also the home of a violent sport.
Social exclusion: boarded-up homes in Liverpool, UK.
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View from an expert in criminal justice – who also lives in one of the UK’s most deprived areas.
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Vulnerable young people have been failed by austerity policies that have decimated the services meant to protect them.
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In the UK, it’s possible to join the army as a soldier at the age of 16, with parental permission. Is it right?
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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.
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Knife crime incidents are individual tragedies, but rising homicide rates reveal a changing society which is ill at ease.
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Previous policies aimed at ending gangs and youth violence have failed. The government should avoid the same mistakes.
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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.
Police in Camden, after a young man of Somali origin was stabbed in February 2018.
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Somali community leaders should help to foster links with their traditional culture.
Mayor of London Sadiq Khan at the Walthamstow youth project, Spark2Life.
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Knife crime is a symptom of the toxic environments that adults create around children.
An attack in London left a man dead. But did you hear about it?
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London is struggling to manage a violent crime epidemic, yet the Manchester attack attracted global attention.
History repeats itself.
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When people don’t trust the government, the media or police, they are less inclined to play by the rules and more likely to lash out violently.