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In the UK knife crime includes any incident involving a bladed instrument. The rate of this type of crime has been steadily increasing over the past five years, according to the Office for National Statistics. In the first six months of this year, 248 people were killed with a knife in En...
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This chapter aims to provide additional insight into the way quantitative data on crime is gathered and processed by journalists, while helping us assess statistics-related methodologies and approaches used when producing stories related to crime. In so doing we can help elucidate the essential ...