The police do it. The street cleaners of Wimbledon do it. Even some politicians do it. Now school pupils are doing it too.
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The Howard League for Penal Reform yesterday confirmed what many have suspected for some time: that punishment alone is ineffective in the fight against knife crime among young people.
Continue reading Howard League offers knife crime answers.
By Mike McNabb
Labour's bold plan to force knife offenders meet victims was always a risky one to float.
Continue reading Restorative justice and knives: Labour was on right track.
By Mike McNabb
Has anyone outside the Metropolitan Police kept a tally of the number of stabbings in London in the past week or so? Sorry to sound glib, only I started to but I lost count.
Continue reading More wounds in Britain's 'broken society'.
by Mike McNabb
They say that in London you are never more than 25 metres from an unwelcome scuttling rodent. Sometimes it feels you are never more than 25 metres from some would-be assailant wielding a knife.
Continue reading Gordon Brown twists the knife.
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