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Scotland has reduced knife crime by treating violence as a public health and social problem, says Joanna Cherry

Schools have a vital part to play in our fight against knife crime by creating a safe, positive place for students, spotting danger signs and spreading the message that carrying a knife is more likely to ruin your life than save it.»

Scotland has reduced knife crime by treating violence as a public health and social problem, says Joanna Cherry

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The reference to gang signs in Stormzy's album title comes at a time when gang - related crime is on the rise in the UK (recent figures show knife crime increased in the UK by 14 per cent between 2015 and 2016).

The recommendation follows claims made by a top officer at Scotland Yard that the courts and prisons aren't doing enough to tackle knife - related crime.

The voices of those affected by violent crime have a pivotal role to play in bringing safety to London and they repeatedly highlight the need to address the underlying social issues that lead people to carry knives in the first place.

The full gun crime statistics for 2007 will be published at the end of the month and will include some of the 27 teenagers murdered by guns or knives in London last year.

Liddle: - The overwhelming majority of street crime, knife crime, gun crime, robbery and crimes of sexual violence in London is carried out by young men from the African - Caribbean community.

Her remit may be broad, but it also covers some of the most important tasks facing this government, including dealing with the knife crime epidemic, tackling modern slavery — a cause championed by Theresa May during her own time at the Home Office and in Downing Street — and leading on the forthcoming Domestic Abuse Bill.

But since targeting the spike in gun crime, it has been cut by 13 % in a year, and we have to do the same with knife crime.

We can't hope to solve today's knife crime crisis solely by «cracking down».

Other new measures announced today include # 5 million injected into areas particularly affected by knife crime, increased use of searches and more home visits to parents of those suspected of carrying weapons.

He failed to make any specific mention of the 20 % rise in violent crime recorded by the police, including a 29 % increase in robbery, a 21 % rise in knife crime or 21 % rise in gun crime.

It was a challenging week for the Liberal Democrats, with their local election campaigning overshadowed by a row with the Conservatives about knife crime, and UKIP attracting the headlines.

Official statistics released last week showed that across England and Wales knife crime rose by a fifth last year, while robberies rose by 33 % and burglaries by 9 %.

In the course of the trial, the prosecution tendered in a post-mortem report of the MP, Forensic DNA Report, Blood stained T - shirt of Asiedu, a knife used by Asiedu, the three iPhones of the deceased, Asiedu's pair of slippers which he left at the crime scene, his prison records, and radiology report determining his age, his medical report, all as evidence to prosecute him.

«I would rather take criticism about that than have parents come to me in Catford, in Lewisham, when their children's lives have been utterly devastated by gangs and knife crime,» Ms Alexander added.

Concerns about knife crime getting worse in Gloucester have been raised on social media by a campaigner.

Last month it emerged knife attacks in the city soared by more than a fifth in the past year as knife crime in London runs out of control.

We need to treat knife crime very seriously by letting judges choose the sentence to fit the crime.

Conservative candidates across the country promised in our election manifesto that we would be tough on crime, increase the prison population to 96,000 by 2014 and that «anyone convicted of a knife crime can expect to face a prison sentence.»

However, after a wave of violent gun and knife crime in London, Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn united with London Mayor Sadiq Khan accused the Tories of «reckless failure» by cutting police numbers and slashing funds for local services.

A pilot of new specially - designed mobile urban gaols («MUGs») to go into crime hotspots that are afflicted by, for instance, knife crime and antisocial disorder.

In light of this, the mayor brought education leaders together with Ofsted, the Met police, Transport for London as well as parents and young people who have been affected by knife crime, at a special summit in Euston, to help increase efforts, and collaborate on how to best tackle the problem in schools.

The courts will do what they can to help reduce, and, so far as practicable, eradicate it... it is important for public confidence in the criminal justice system that the man or woman caught in possession of a knife or offensive weapon without reasonable excuse should normally be brought before the courts and prosecuted... whatever other considerations may arise in the individual case, sentencing courts must have in the forefront of their thinking that the sentences for this type of offence should focus on the reduction of crime, including its reduction by deterrence, and the protection of the public.

The rates of violent crime in UK are on the rise, with knife crime rising by 20 %, gun crime rising by 21 % and London's murder rate ove... Read more