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Knife Crime - The UK Street Epidemic

by enrico

The UK has seen a massive increase in publicised knife crimes in
2008, with so many newspaper front pages covered in stories about
the latest victim of another vicious attack. On Sunday 13th July,
a 22 year old man was stabbed at Scotland's T in the Park music
festival in yet another high-profile case of British knife crime.
As knife crime continues to attract more publicity in the UK, the
public are looking to the government for answers and solutions.

While media attention has increased dramatically in the last
couple of years, the actual figures show that knife crime has
remained reasonably constant at around 7-8 per cent of all UK
crime. However, these figures will do little to appease the
victims of stabbings and knife attacks that regularly make the
news headlines. So, what are the government's plans to reduce
knife crime and what punishments will these offenders face?

In 2006, the Home Office introduced a number of measures in an
attempt to reduce crime including an amnesty where nearly 100,000
knives were surrendered. Doubling the maximum penalty for knife
possession, increasing the age limit for knife purchasing and a
ban on owning samurai swords has done little to bring knife crime
down. With a large number of front-page knife attacks including
five fatalities in one weekend, it seems that the Home Office's
efforts need to be revisited.

Home Secretary Jacqui Smith has put together a dossier of the
government's proposals that attempt to address the problems of
youth crime, and particularly knife crime. One of the more
controversial solutions that the government will propose is that
youths caught carrying knives will be forced to meet knife crime
victims in an attempt to deter them. It is doubtful how effective
these tactics will be on a youth that is intending to use a
knife, however shocking the victim's injuries.

As well as this punishment, Gordon Brown's government plans to
increase police visibility, community service orders and
targetting 'problem families'. Brown appears to believe that
young people need to be made aware of what is deemed unacceptable
behaviour in an attempt to make the British streets safer for the
majority. With increasing notoriety surrounding knife crimes, the
media attention could be having a negative effect on both the
general public and the youths in question.

Newspaper headlines emphasise the imminent danger that we face
every day as we leave our houses, while young wannabe gang
members try to 'fit in' by getting the latest fashion accessory -
a knife. So where does reality end and paranoid hysteria begin?
Knife crime is a serious issue in the UK, but it is not
increasing as much as the media may have you believe. However,
the problem is rife amongst the youth of today and this trend
mayb continue to flourish with the suggested solutions of the
current Labour government.

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