Groups, gangs and weapons : A summary of research into the nature and prevalence of young people’s involvement in group offending, gangs and weapons / YJB, 23 May 2007
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Tara Young, Marian FitzGerald, Simon Hallsworth and Ian Joseph
"A conference held by the YJB in 2003 highlighted growing concerns in Britain about the reported increase of gang-related offending and the use of weapons by young people, and a lack of hard evidence on both of these issues and still less evidence about whether the two were related. The YJB commissioned research to try to fill these gaps and to discover the factors underlying any trends, as well as identifying their implications for policy and practice."
[The full report can be purchased from the Youth Justice Board:
http://www.yjb.gov.uk/publications/Scripts/prodView.asp?idProduct=342&eP]