Violence affects entire communities, even law-abiding residents.
- Lecturer in Policing Studies, School of Justice Studies., Liverpool John Moores University
Some areas of Merseyside have more children at risk from gangs than in London. So why isn’t it studied more?
Faced with cutbacks to youth services and limited opportunities, risk-taking behaviour can, for some, become highly alluring.
Gentrification happens when attempts to build bridges between disenfranchised people and their better-off peers go awry – but it doesn’t have to be this way.
View from an expert in criminal justice – who also lives in one of the UK’s most deprived areas.
Young people from poor backgrounds are being radicalised by criminal gangs.
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