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I missed this GLA slide pack when it was published in July.
'A Public Health Approach to Serious Youth Violence: Supporting Evidence'
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'A Public Health Approach to Serious Youth Violence: Supporting Evidence'
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Sigh. I found it pretty frustrating.
Lots of data confirming the association with a range of indicators of disadvantage.
OK, useful.
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Lots of data confirming the association with a range of indicators of disadvantage.
OK, useful.
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What's missing?
Longitudinal analysis, qualitative insights and a narrative.
A basic question: why did serious youth violence get worse between 2012/13 and 2017/18?
Nothing.
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Longitudinal analysis, qualitative insights and a narrative.
A basic question: why did serious youth violence get worse between 2012/13 and 2017/18?
Nothing.
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Tackling disadvantage is a generational challenge - vital but long term.
What about secondary and tertiary prevention? college.police.uk/What-we-do/Sup…
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What about secondary and tertiary prevention? college.police.uk/What-we-do/Sup…
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Also, where's the urgency?
My recollection is that this is the first published analysis of serious youth violence to have come out of MOPAC/the GLA and the Metropolitan Police.
#knifecrime and #guncrime surged in 2016, and had already been rising before then.
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My recollection is that this is the first published analysis of serious youth violence to have come out of MOPAC/the GLA and the Metropolitan Police.
#knifecrime and #guncrime surged in 2016, and had already been rising before then.
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Here are those sharp rises visible almost 3 years ago
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3 years later.
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