News
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...
News
Latest signs of a renewed law and order auction
The law and order rhetoric appears to be heating up in advance of the 2015 General Election and in reaction to the fatal stabbing of school teacher Ann Maguire.
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Comment
Trends in knife homicide in England and Wales
There is no getting away from the awfulness of what unfolded yesterday at Corpus Christi Catholic College. The fatal stabbing of...
News
Knife crime: perception vs reality
Richard Garside argues in The Guardian that the narrow focus on the 'crime problem' is preventing policy makers from considering the totality of ways in which the lived experience of far too...
Publication
'Knife Crime': Ineffective reactions to a distracting problem? A review of evidence and policy
A coherent evidence based strategy that recognises the deeper structural causes of inequality, poverty and social disaffection is needed to address knife related offending according to a report published today by the Centre for Crime and Justice Studies. The report argues that enforcement and...
Publication
'Knife crime'. A review of evidence and policy (2nd Edition)
A coherent evidence based strategy that recognises the deeper structural causes of inequality, poverty and social disaffection is needed to address knife related offending according to a report published by the Centre for Crime and Justice Studies. The report argues that enforcement and punitive...
Publication
Young people, knives and guns (summary)
The summary version of detailed research carried out in 2009 on the evidence for effective strategies to tackle knife and gun carrying by young people.
Publication
Young people, knives and guns
There is little evidence to support police-led interventions to tackle knife violence, research from the Centre for Crime and Justice Studies has concluded. Following a comprehensive review of gun and knife crime strategies, conducted for the Children's Commissioner for England, the report - Young...
Publication
Street Weapons Commission: Guns, Knives and Street Violence
Street Weapons Commission: Guns, Knives and Street Violence is a review of the extent and nature of the use of guns and knives in violent crime in five UK cities, commissioned by Channel 4 television for their Street Weapons Commission.