General Article Getting a knife is like ‘ordering a pizza’: the reality of Britain’s knife crime epidemic

Topic Selected: Youth Violence Book Volume: 430

By Rosie MacLeod

In the summer of 2008, the UK was shocked and saddened by the fatal stabbing of teenager Ben Kinsella in an unprovoked attack. Thirteen years on, his demographic category (young men) remains the most vulnerable to the growing dangers of the blade. There were ‘285 deaths by a knif...

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