Tuesday, July 15, 2008

How can our politicians understand blade culture? / Guardian, 14 July 2008
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2008/jul/14/knifecrime.youngpeople?gusrc=rss&feed=society
Rowenna Davis
"New proposals to tackle knife crime demonstrate just how little ministers know about the context our kids are operating in. Young people don't get involved with crime because they don't know the consequences; in many cases, it's precisely because they do know the consequences that they carry a blade."