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'Protection' is one reason for knife crime



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Published Date: 17 April 2008
FEAR of attack, the need for protection and peer pressure are the main reasons for the rise in gun and knife crime, a survey of young people has revealed.
A report by NCH, the children's charity, found 63 per cent said the main reason people became involved in such crimes was to protect themselves.

Almost half of those interviewed – 46 per cent – thought certain types of music and violent computer games could be an influential factor.

Step Inside Our Shoes: young people's views on gun and knife crime published today, reveals many youngsters do not feel safe in their own neighbourhoods.

According to the survey, some 15 per cent were personally affected by gun and knife crime, and 20 per cent felt in danger.





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  • Last Updated: 16 April 2008 10:24 PM
  • Source: The Scotsman
  • Location: Edinburgh
  • Related Topics: Knife culture
 
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henrymanchester,

UK 17/04/2008 03:40:30
This awful "New Labour" government should be put on trial after they leave power and put in prison for what they have done to Britain.

You are all unfit to govern, every last one of you useless elitist political classes.
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Robert,

Kirriemuir 17/04/2008 19:30:27
What is the NCH trying to achieve by squandering money on what has been widely and generally known for decades? On reaching my 80th year I can confirm that those same fears of young people prevailed in most working-class cultures and this was the days when there was radio (basic stuff) and silent films still existed and where the protagonist always won and when crime was puplicised as not paying (who were the authorities kidding). It was the days of censorship and when anti-hero worship did not exist yet the fear and the violence still prevailed so what is new? Just the excuses for incompetent government and public management. Problems always start at the top of a hierarchy and never at the bottom. Young men, especially from deprived areas desparately need a sense of achievement as part of their 'rites of passage' into adulthood which is absent in society so what happens in the vacuum; they create their own which is mostly based on primitive instincts. We live in a cockeyed society where the word altruism is seldom spoken and its meaning almost unknown!

 

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