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Online bid to cut knife crime



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Published Date: 04 July 2008
THE family of Ben Kinsella, the 16-year-old stabbed to death in north London last weekend, launched a website and fund in his memory yesterday in a bid to end the scourge of knife crime.
Mr Kinsella was stabbed to death after being chased down a street following a fight he was not involved in, making him the 17th teenager to die violently in the capital this year.

On the website, his sister, EastEnders actress Brooke Kinsella, said: "It truly is time to stand up and put an end to this."



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  • Last Updated: 03 July 2008 9:44 PM
  • Source: The Scotsman
  • Location: Edinburgh
 
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gus1940,

Edinburgh 04/07/2008 08:01:44
When was the last time a knife killing in Scotland featured in a National (London based) News Bulletin?

Not only do knife killings in London feature on National Bulletins but they are frequently the top story and coverage of a particular killing continues for days and sometimes weeks.

In Scotland, particularly in Greater Glasgow, knife killings have historically been an almost daily occurrence but that does not make each killing in Scotland any less serious a matter than one in London.
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Redlesweb,

London 04/07/2008 12:48:09
Knife Crime is not a competition. It does not matter which city has more knife crime than another. As with Scotland, not every knife crime committed in London makes the news. What is different is the number of youths killing each other, predominantly with the use of knives.

I worked in Glasgow for a number of years with diaffected youths. I have also done this work in London. Through my every day work and my personal experiences I see more evidence of youth crime, mob culture and knife attacks more so than I did in Glasgow. There is a real problem here, and in every other major UK city, including the 'knife capital' Glasgow. Punitive punishments have shown no evidence of being effective yet we continue to demonise children, not seeing the faults of society or from us as adults. We have cries from the 'middle classes' voicing their disgust of 'youths today' and 'the scum of society', and prefer to see 'them' expelled to 'their' own districts where 'they' can not be seen or heard. Yet when such draconian measures show little by way of effect they cry again that nobody is acting and it is all the faults of the youths and the parents - again seeing no blame in their own actions and intollerance.

 

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