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Gangs offer belonging, identity, protection and support for young people.
A neighborhood coalition identified risk factors for youth violence and prevention strategies.
Evidence-based early intervention and prevention programs are the best way to curb youth violence and gang involvement.
The fines of $250 for a first offense and $500 for a second hit low-income families the hardest.
Current crime-fighting proposals lack concrete, evidence-based actions and proven public health strategies that are known to significantly and cost-effectively reduce violent crime.
School mass shooters often display warning signs well before they open fire. How can schools and police take preventive action to save lives?
To resolve growing violence in schools, policy conversations about gun violence need to include community programs that dismantle systemic barriers and inequities.
A look at what was happening in the lives of young people one year before they started carrying a weapon.
It’s a worn-out debate based on no strong evidence, and if violent themes are going to be picked apart, then the real-world violence they’re mimicking must be too.
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.
A round up of evidence-based views on the knife crime epidemic – including what action is really needed to prevent more young lives being lost.
Previous policies aimed at ending gangs and youth violence have failed. The government should avoid the same mistakes.
Nations like Scotland and New Zealand have pioneered community-centred strategies to tackle knife crime – it’s time for the rest of the UK to follow suit.
Knife crime is a symptom of the toxic environments that adults create around children.
Youth workers try to use a ‘window of opportunity’ to help young victims of violent crime get out of a cycle of violence.
Teens who have high hopes for the future were less likely to threaten or injure someone with a weapon, a recent study reports. Could helping youth build dreams for the future also curb violence?
Thousands of young people have got on their bikes to make a political statement in London’s streets. The government would do well to pay attention.
Research is revealing that both families who have experienced adolescent family violence and those working with them feel the criminal justice system is not an appropriate way to respond to it.
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Professor of Criminology, Loughborough University
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Professor of Criminology, University of Hull
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Professor, Centre for Women's Studies & Gender Research, Sociology, Monash University
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Professor, Institute of Criminology and Public Safety, University of Trinidad and Tobago
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Professor (Practice), Faculty of Business and Economics, Monash University
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Emeritus Professor Monash University, Monash University
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UPMC Children's Hospital; Assistant professor of pediatrics, University of Pittsburgh
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Professor of Criminology and Social Policy, Manchester Metropolitan University
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Senior Lecturer in Sociology and Criminology, York St John University
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Senior Lecturer, Department of Sociology, Manchester Metropolitan University
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Associate dean, York St John University
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Senior Lecturer, Manchester Metropolitan University