In their own words: why young men carry knives / Observer, 18 May 2008
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2008/may/18/ukcrime2?gusrc=rss&feed=uknews
Why has it become so routine for many young Britons to carry and use knives so brutally? Here, in a remarkably frank series of interviews, young men from different backgrounds tell Anushka Asthana and Ross Slater what compels them to carry knives and why they are increasingly prepared to use them