UK faces rise in ‘high-harm’ crime — ONS London and other cities experience jump in knife and gun crime April 9 2018 Amber Rudd’s new crime strategy overshadowed by UK funding row Leaked document suggests fall in police numbers is to blame for surge in violent crime ...
Since then, there has been a great deal of innovation in the sector and it is now possible to find companies providing anti-knife crime posters, t-shirts, stickers, magnets, educational packs, assemblies, teaching resources, knife deposit boxes and much more. Sometimes these are sponsored or ...
However, working beneath the political discourses and the pronouncements of policy makers (and the 'knife crime industry') there are professionals who confront the complex realities of interpersonal violence in everyday practices and actions. And there are also young people themselves. Drawing on ...
Although the problem is treated as a matter of fact, a largely self-explanatory label, many commentators have repeatedly acknowledged the difficulty in establishing a consistent, workable and evidence-based definition of 'knife crime'. What we call 'knife crime' consists of a range of different ...
This ultimately led to a problematic public definition of 'knife crime' as we understand it today. This chapter retraces the earliest public uses of the term 'knife crime' in news reports from 2002 onwards and the first interpretations of data collected through the new police 'knife-enabled' ...
The introduction of the 'knife enabled' crime recording feature code in 2001 fundamentally changed the way crimes were categorised and reported, culminating in the problematic public definition of 'knife crime' as we understand it today. The interaction of events that lead to this moment will be...
Here we situate the political focus on 'knife crime' in this moment as one amongst a number of important political shifts during a temporary rupture in the maintenance of political authority. This chapter follows the 'knife crime' chronology and narrative up to the present, including its return...