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What’s happening in the SVRO pilot?
Six months on from the launch of the controversial SVROs, what have we learnt so far?
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SVROs: What is the Home Office trying to hide?
As part of the Young Adult Safety project, StopWatch is working in partnership with the Centre for Crime and Justice Studies, looking at serious violence reduction orders (SVROs).
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Introducing the Young Adult Safety series
The Centre is currently scrutinising a number of serious violence policies and practices as part of our Young Adult Safety project.
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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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Government backdown on short sentences?
Our Director, Richard Garside, was quoted in The Times (paywall) on Justice Secretary David Gauke's recently announced prison reform plans.
In the wake of recent deaths from knife violence reported in the media, the Justice Secretary appears to be diluting his proposals to abolish short-term sentences, after facing pressure from the Prime Minister. At the weekend No. 10 said that both short and long-term sentences would be necessary...
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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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Centre's research on stop and search cited
Our research on stop and search has been cited in a parliamentary debate on serious violence as to the limited effectiveness of stop and search on crime reduction.
Last year's report, Young people, violence and knives evaluated recent trends in knife crime and the effectiveness of different policy responses in...
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Knife crime: folk devils and moral panics?
2018 saw a significant increase in attention to knife crime.
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Evidence mounts on Glasgow's Violence Reduction Unit
Susan McVie, Ellie Bates and Rebecca Pillinger recently published their research findings on violence reduction in Glasgow and London on the LSE blog.
The findings support our own research, presented in Young people, violence and knives, a briefing we published in November examining knife violence...
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Has there been a surge in knife crime?
We’ve been hearing a lot in the news recently about a ‘surge’ in knife crime, so let’s have a look at the data and see what’s going on.
When you hear people...