What is the public health approach to knife crime? #BattleofIdeasFest 
When we use race to explain knife crime the response is generally more punitive says Adam Elliot-Cooper #BattleofIdeasFest
Some really outstanding contributions here @buffsoldier_96 comparing moralising approaches with medicalising ones #knifecrime #BattleofIdeasFest
Antonia Kim Charles now articulating how the number one reason cited by perpetrators themselves is .... Education or lack thereof #knifecrime #BattleofIdeasFest
Insulting for @patel4witham idea to put logos on chicken boxes - put it anywhere else but there says Antonia #BattleofIdeasFest
Trying to persuade us that society doesn't really care about violence as much as words - provocation from @StuartWaiton #BattleofIdeasFest
What is worse in hate crime? is it hate or is it the crime? @StuartWaiton #BattleofIdeasFest
Moral confusion to our response about violence - esp if everyone depicted as a victim #BattleofIdeasFest @StuartWaiton
Schoolteacher from Eltham suggesting that class might provide better delineation than race which it comes to #knifecrime - stating how his school had suffered black deaths from white perpetrators since #Lawrence #BattleofIdeasFest
Brilliant response from Adam framing and contextualising supposed moral relapse of black perpetrators against fundamental violence and immorality of state - eg. arms sales. #BattleofIdeasFest
"Smacking for me is called violence but is not violence" says @StuartWaiton
"Authority and its assertion is now seen as abusive" @StuartWaiton talking about a father justifiably smacking a violent child but feeling physically sick afterwards
