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A duty to prevent violence – empowerment or burden?
Knife offenders will be treated like would-be jihadists under measures announced on Monday by Sajid Javid, the Home Secretary, to crack down on violent crime.
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The College of Policing on ‘knife crime’: a turn for the better?
The College of Policing has issued a very interesting briefing on knife crime.
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This week in media appearances
It's been a busy week for our Director, Richard Garside, who has given his comments on a range of criminal justice issues.
In Tuesday's Guardian, Richard drew light on the geographical clustering of knife violence in an article by Jamie Grierson. ...
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Knife crime: a national emergency?
The Centre's director, Richard Garside, commented on knife crime trends and measures to tackle violence in yesterday's Guardian.
Richard said it was inaccurate to describe the spate of knife crime as a national emergency, adding:
It’s a very small number of the general population that’s either being victimised by this or in fear of their lives. It’s why these incidents seem quite shocking and why
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Public health model to reduce youth violence
Last Thursday, parliament held a debate, 'Public health model to reduce youth violence'.
The Home Office released its Serious Violence Strategy earlier this year aiming to take a public health approach to violence. London...
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Knife crime a public health, not policing, problem
Knife crime should be treated as a public health challenge, not a policing problem, our Director, Richard Garside, tells The Guardian newspaper today.
There is renewed concern that knife violence is on the rise following the publication of the latest crime data showing a 22 percent increase in knife crime and an 11 percent rise in gun crime.
Richard told the Guardian that while most people would never be a victim of knife...
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Comment on knife crime
Our Research Director, Roger Grimshaw, has been quoted by a number of news outlets on knife crime in London.
Today he commented on London's knife violence for NBC News:
The carrying of weapons is something that operates like a contagion. If people feel frightened because they are
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Police cannot solve knife violence problem
Our Director Richard Garside today welcomed remarks by the Chair of the all-party group on knife crime that tackling knife violence was a health and education challenge, not a police issue.
The remarks by Sarah Jones, the MP for Croydon Central, came in an...
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Met police challenged on budget cuts crime claim
London's Metropolitan Police are playing 'nudge and wink politics' over police budgets, our Director, Richard Garside told this morning's BBC Radio Four Today programme.
His comments came in response to last week's claim...
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Rise in hospital admissions for stab wounds
Last week we collaborated with The Sunday Times on an investigation into the rise in hospital admissions for stab wounds (£).
In the twelve months to April 2016, 4,054 people...
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Is stop and search really the answer to knife crime?
‘This is not an issue we will ever arrest or enforce our way out of.’ Commenting on young...
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Mandatory sentences about politics, not safety
Our director Richard Garside was quoted by The Guardian over the weekend, on mandatory sentences for knife carrying.
Richard said that the...