Understanding Knife Crime: Information and Resources
What is knife crime? Knife crime is any crime involving a knife or sharp object. This includes: carrying a knife, owning a banned knife, trying to buy a knife if you are under 18, and/or threatening, injuring or fatally wounding someone with a knife.
Defining knife crime - College of Policing
Knife crime refers to a broad collection of behaviours that mean different things to different people. For some, knife crime is exclusively a ‘youth crime’ issue, despite the fact that many older people use, and are injured with, knives.
Knife crime: causes and solutions – editors’ guide to what our …
Mar 11, 2019 · Knife crime is a symptom of the toxic environments that adults create around children, who then become both perpetrators and victims. It is created by politicians and by the politics of...
Understanding the causes of knife crime | College of Policing
Jan 1, 2019 · Motivations for and factors associated with an individual’s involvement in knife crime.
Examining Knife Crime in the United States | by Igorgrochu
Jul 1, 2024 · Knife crime, while often overshadowed by gun violence in the United States, remains a significant and concerning issue. This article delves into the prevalence, causes, and consequences of knife...
Idris Elba: 'Knife crime isn’t just a Black problem' - Radio Times
2 days ago · Our Knife Crime Crisis is a new documentary airing on BBC One tonight, helmed by acclaimed actor and anti-knife crime activist Idris Elba. In January 2024, Elba launched a campaign calling for an ...
Zombie knife ban won't solve crisis - but there is hope, says Idris ...
2 days ago · Banning the sale of zombie knives is a positive step, but schools need to intervene earlier to help tackle the UK's knife crime crisis, says Idris Elba. The actor, 52, has spent the last year ...
Idris Elba: Our Knife Crime Crisis TV review - Financial Times
6 days ago · The documentary makes a persuasive case that knife crime is symptomatic of a society that has failed to safeguard young people or given them reason to believe in public institutions. While the ...
Victims, offenders and victim-offender overlaps of knife crime…
Dec 11, 2020 · Knife crime is a source of concern for the police in England and Wales, however little published research exists on this crime type. Who are the offenders who use knives to commit crime, when and why? Who are their victims, and is there a victim-offender overlap? What is the social network formation for people who are exposed to knife crime?
Zombie knife ban won't solve crisis - but there is hope, says ... - BBC
2 days ago · In the documentary, called Idris Elba: Our Knife Crime Crisis, the Hollywood star meets a 17-year-old boy at Feltham young offender institution who first began carrying a blade when he was 13.