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.
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.
Knife crime is a symptom of the toxic environments that adults create around children.
London is struggling to manage a violent crime epidemic, yet the Manchester attack attracted global attention.
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.
Former young offenders can be uniquely well-equipped to support teenagers at risk of getting caught up in crime.
Distrust in the police is a surprisingly central factor when people arm themselves illegally.
The policing of black British culture has a long history.
Youth workers try to use a ‘window of opportunity’ to help young victims of violent crime get out of a cycle of violence.
There are no easy answers when it comes to tackling knife crime but young people must be at the centre of any possible solution.
Violence in UK schools is at record levels, but expelling pupils isn’t always the answer.
The former Police and Crime Commissioner for Essex argues that more resources can help, but any available funds need to be spent by the right agencies in the right way.
Thousands of young people have got on their bikes to make a political statement in London’s streets. The government would do well to pay attention.
The British government is not facing up to the serious challenges it faces.
There have been more than 50 murders in London already in 2018, and more in February and March than in New York.
Stabbing deaths among young people are at an eight-year high – and the government is not doing anything effective to solve it.
Stop and search contributes to marginalisation and has a corrosive impact on society.
It’s too easy to blame gang culture.
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Lecturer in Policing Studies, School of Justice Studies., Liverpool John Moores University
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Senior Lecturer in Criminology, University of Kent
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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 In Criminology, Staffordshire University
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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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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 Brighton
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Senior Lecturer in Criminology, University of Lincoln
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Professor of Public Services Research, Anglia Ruskin University
