According to Professor Adam Elliott-Cooper from the department of sociology at the University of Greenwich, the question of hospital-recorded knife crime rates "depends on when we start the clock." "If we start the clock five years ago, yes, certainly knife crime has increased, but if we st...
Risk factors should help identify high-risk individuals, targeting them within mitigation strategies to prevent involvement within crime. This should contribute to efforts aimed at reducing the rising crime rates within UK.doi:10.1186/s12889-020-09498-4Sara Haylock...
Does this solve the crime? It’s impossible to guess, but it seems like the answer is a firm no. After handguns were banned in the United Kingdom, the homicide ratesrose drastically. People just turned to knives. After knives have been targeted for years, people have been turning toacid...
The introduction of the ‘knife-enabled’ feature code in 2001 fundamentally changed the way knife-enabled crimes were categorised and reported. This ultimately led to a problematic public definition of ‘knife crime’ as we understand it today. This chapter retraces the earliest public uses of t...
Pre-emptive Policing: Can Technology be the Answer to Solving London's Knife Crime Epidemic? As knife-related crimes continue to increase it has become an ever-growing area of concern in the UK. The highest rates were recorded in the London Metropo... S Smart-Akande,J Pinney,C Hewage,.....
LONDON, March 6 (Xinhua) -- Pupils in areas where knife crime is common are learning in school how to deal with bleeding and deliver first aid, reported local media Wednesday. According to The Times, a charity called Street Doctors used role play and visual props to teach the children what...
But advocates fear the ban will not reduce crime rates. “We’ve got more young people than ever that are carrying these knives,” Pastor Lorraine Jones Burrell told ITV News in a recent interview.Make it Stop Campaigner Pastor Lorraine Jones Burrell on ways to reduce knife ...
Focus: CRIME UK ; It Is the Public's Number One Fear - and for Good Reason. Although Crime Rates Are Falling, Sexual Violence, Teenage Thuggery, Robbery an... RAPE crisis counsellor Jo Watson doesn't mince words when asked about Home Secretary Jack Straw's date rape proposals. P Lashmar...
Thomas Xavier over at theMore Than Just Survivingoffered the best analysis of what it means. Xavier is from the UK and had lived in Canada for years. This is a grotesque legislative overreach, and should it actually be enforced to the full extent of the law, could prove hugely problematic...
Therefore, Shepherd says, "It is not safe to assume that the most serious violence, including knife and gun violence, will have been reported."Further, "UK legislation on violent crime in the past 10 years has done much to promote data sharing, including the introduction of more than 350 ...