Knife Crime in England and Wales: A Sociological Report

This report provides a detailed analysis of knife crime in England and Wales, focusing particularly on the involvement of teenagers. It explores various contributing factors such as mental health issues, broken family structures, and the influence of social media. The report reviews existing literatu...Read More

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Table of Contents
ABSTRACT.....................................................................................................................................3
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
Literature Review.............................................................................................................................3
Methodology ..................................................................................................................................6
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................7
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................8
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ABSTRACT
Knife crimes has been becomes the Common crimes in the England and Wales. As per
the reports it has been focuses that parents of the teenager warns their children and helps them at
the early stages about such crimes. These crimes have been done by the Teenagers due to the
mental illness or sometimes due to the broken family. As parents are not felling good with each
other and this impact negatively on the children and after that teenagers commitment the Knife
crimes. Infant school should provide the awareness about the knife crimes among the school and
also educate them These school has been provided training to the Teachers so that with the
responsibility they teach them about the knife crimes as most of the children are unaware about
such crimes ,they are just influenced by social media .
INTRODUCTION
Parents of the teenager children warns their children about the knife as the age of seven .
While most of the parents think that the right age is 10 or 11 is the appropriate time to broach
this tricky subject (Thompson, 2018). One in ten parents felt that need to raise this crucial issue
during the infant school. The knife crime epidemics is quickly spreading all over the areas of the
world,so it is crucial that children are supported to stay safe while adults must better to
understand the pressure which is growing day by day on young people . There are official
figures from the Home office show a high rise within the number of knife crimes offences with a
total of 43,515 recorded within the 12 months leading up to April 2019. There is a huge
increment on the 23,944 offences within year ending April 2014. Present report lay emphasis on
the literature review of the research that is linked to the Knife cases of the teenagers, after that it
focuses on the research methods that provides the research methods and after that the
outcomes of the main findings .
Literature Review
As per the view of Thompson (2018) of the Knives have been involved within 1,250
incidents since the March 2017 – an equivalent to the six cases for every day of the school year
called English school year . These incidents included 50 children under the age of 11 years -The
age regarding criminal responsibility but the real figure is much different.
As per the view of the Barlow. and Awan
(2016)it is also emerged that more than one in five parents believes that the Knife crime is
getting worse day by day with 56% believing that the police,government and local authorities
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are struggling to get it to the under control (Robinson. and Robinson, 2017). The National
statistics said that the enhance was real as well as unlikely to be because of the images within
the recording practices of police. The separate crimes surveys within the Wales and England said
that crime can be fell by 6%. It is suggested that the since 1981 the crime had been fallen to its
lowest as well as also estimated that there are around 6.9 million crimes within 2014 and 2015
According to the Robinson. and Robinson( 2017) social media and drug dealing are considers as
the key drivers, but here police are funding more to turn around the loss regarding thousands of
the voluntary groups and officers are attacking cuts to services regarding the youth. This
debates continues a bleak background regarding rising knife crime as it rose through 22 %
across Wales and England within 2017 as it considers as the biggest crime all over the country.
Reports of violence,murders and stabbing have daily occurrence within the London. The
majority of the people will not be considers as the victim of the violent crime These types of the
typically disproportionately concentrated within London as well as other metropolitans as per
the () they are considered very serious crimes within the context of the overall population as
they are very rare. The enhances within the crimes that includes the knives has also been seen
within the hospital. Last years 40 children as well as teenagers were killed through knife within
the United Kingdom and also more than half of them were within the hospital
According to the Nawaz. and Khan,( 2019) there few more than 51 homicides within London
within first 100 days of the 2018. The figures suggests that there are serious violences and there
are no consensus about the solutions or causes. The latest policy of the targeting violence
crimes point to change within the nature of the drugs sales as well as use of the music
glamorizing violence and crack cocaine as consider as the issues that able to fuelling such type of
problems. Thus the criminologist and policy experts put enhance down combinations of various
complex factors.
As per the view of Nawaz. and Khan,( 2019) long term public health style may
approaches a key to eliminate to reduce serious violence. Simon Harding who are associate
professor within criminology at the West University of London as it says the rise within the party
because of cuts within the youth services as well as police community that assist officers.
As explained by() the experience of the young women are becoming more common day by day.
Last year around 14% of the knife crimes are females as well as those attacked within domestic
abuse incidents as well as a quarter of victims of crimes (knife) were the females. Various
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doctors of the Liverpool university has been observing police officers within the work at the past
six years and also girls as well as Young women are being more exploited to carry weapons
thus they are much likely to be stopped through as well as searched through police. The
attention on the male suspects that leads to the recruitment regarding the young women.
As explained by Butcher.and et.al., (2019) Anti-Knife crime called campaigner who had
herself that survived through two sabbling through two different women that agrees the gang
violences that is on the rise as well as girls that has low self-esteem are more emotionally
exploited.
Ms lobby who was from the West London was considered as the first victim of knife at the aged
just 13,when she was so cute from her face.
As explained by Neyroud, (2017) Ms Robert excluded from school at the age of 12 as well as
homeless through age 16 ,warned that the girls from the broken homes and troubled backgrounds
are the most within at risk. The large reduction within police funding since the 2011 has meant
for the fewer detectives that less time as well as bigger workload taking with on the long
investigations as it can be more difficult to get a charge. In some cases police have becomes
fearful witnesses as well as victims that do not feel capable to involved with the officers as well
as court process. This indicates that a little possibility regarding a prosecution. Some forces that
have been given additional funding to tackle the violence that are using to improve so that it can
improve the forensic capabilities so that the victim is unwilling to proceed, so that the case can
still progress by the Police.
As cited by Nawaz and Khan (2019) the children's commission has called from primary to the
secondary school as it is crucial time to teach them about the knife at the age 11 years old. It is
considers as the crucial time to teach them about the knife crime. As per the opinion to critical
age providing the key messages on the violence and knife crime is 11 to 13 years old. Teachers
see a huge transformation within children who can visited workshops over the years. The assured
children within the six years becomes worried and scared at the age of seven as well as eights.
As per the opinion to critical age providing the key messages on the violence and knife crime is
11 to 13 years old. Teachers see a huge transformation within children who can visited
workshops over the years. The assured children within the six years becomes worried and scared
at the age of seven as well as eights. These are the concerns that are real.
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As elaborated by Butcher.and et.al., (2019) Some data shows that one within the seven 14
years old claims that to know someone who becomes daily basis carries a knife. Police stations
as well as hospital admission data also highlights that there is a massive jump within knife
incidents from the children who's aged up-to the age 12 and so on. As per the reports of the
United Nations it has be found that the Scotland has considered as the second highest murder rate
within the Europe as Scots are considers as three times more likely to be murdered as compare to
the England as well as Wales. There has been part f the approach to tackle knife crime has been
fought within Scottish schools. No knives better lives charity that has been funded through the
Scottish government contains the pack called resource pack for working with the children about
11 and 12 years old as well as above. It highlights on teaching the young children for the
responsibility,consequences of well as risks,reassurance ,resilience as well as using role-play.
According to the view of Nawaz and Khan (2019)that is acknowledged through the police as
well as politicians that are like they can't simply arrest to the situation. But as per the reports
country is not doing enough to teach the young teens that is excluded from the entrying within
the criminal justice before the acting.
Methodology
Here the Primary methodology has been used through the researcher so that the data can be
collected daily from the previous research done as they is carried out address of a certain
problem that needed the depth analysis. One of the major benefits of the Primary research is that
this type of the research is thus carried out a particularly issues as well as problems and also the
problem to focus regarding obtain the solutions. Primary search as the telephonic or Face to face
interviews that is considered as the qualitative research ,also the interviews are considers as the
open-ended that involves interactions among the interviewers as well as Interviewee (Nawaz.
and Khan, 2019).
Online surveys- It can be done with the pen as well as paper ,as surveys has come long ways
since then as most of the researcher utilizes the online surveys that sends on emails or it can fill
out line (Watts, 2019).
Sampling- It is a process that used within the statistical analysis that predetermined number of
observations that are taken from many populations that depends on various kinds of analysis that
being performed as well as it may involve the systematic sampling. Here 20 parent are slcted as
the sample price (Butcher.and et.al., 2019).
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CONCLUSION
From the above Study it had been concluded that a lack of the clear strategy that was
based on the high quality ,various researches as well as government polices and also the problem
related to the knife offenses. It focused on that issues that teenagers who are from broken home
and exploitation are more forward to commit this type of crimes. Certain schools had of England
and Wales Educate their children about the knife crimes at the age of 10 and 11 years old. These
types of crime also done Because of the influences of the Social Media responses and also the
children who become the drug addicts at the Early stages of their life.
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