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Beyond the blade: Communities restoring hope and safety

Knife crime continues to affect communities across the United Kingdom, causing harm and fear in everyday life...

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Turning the tide: How effective are youth programs in fighting crime

The effectiveness of youth groups on youth crime is a big question among people and the media, is it working?

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Beyond the Pitch: How Youth Initiatives Protect Young People and Transform Mental Wellbeing

Across the United Kingdom, youth initiatives have become essential in providing young people purpose, safety and connection in a time when many feel isolated and overlooked...

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Exploring the impact of the Media: useful but underutilised?

Knife crime among young people remains one of the most pressing issues in the South Yorkshire region and the UK...

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Invest in boys, not prison beds

This article aims to help build a case for challenging the long-term funding cuts to youth provision. The starting premise is that funding can be better spent on initiatives focused on prevention of violence rather than the costly incarceration of young people...

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Blades and boundaries: Women and girls in the world of gangs and knife crime

The pervasive focus on young men in public discourse, whether through the media or news coverage, creates a gender data gap that leaves young women and girls in gangs essentially invisible...

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From punishment to prevention: How London’s Violence Reduction Unit is rewriting the script on knife crime

Knife crime in London is still a prevalent issue, which disproportionately affects the population of youth groups leading to the devastating loss of young lives...

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Beyond Borders: Policy Transfer in the reduction of youth crime

Policy transfer refers to adapting and implementing policies from other jurisdictions to address local challenges, such as youth and knife crime...

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Modern preventative measures: the Online Safety Act and its future in protecting young people

The focus of this article is the Online Safety Act 2023. Due to its recent enactment, there is little research on its effectiveness...

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Locked out: exploring the relationship between youth homelessness and reoffending

For the last ten years, youth justice in England and Wales has undergone a significant transformation...

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How deprivation fuels Britain’s knife crime crisis

This article will examine the relationship between socio-economic deprivation and increasing knife-based violence in Britain, with a focus on child crime and poverty...

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The Price of Protection: Poverty and knife crime in the UK

In this section, I will explore how poverty and funding cuts can directly influence the increase of knife crime...

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