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With gun and knife crimes, including fatalities, hitting the headlines with disturbing regularity and affecting many young people around the country, Craig Pinkney has found himself in demand. The Birmingham-based youth worker and criminologist, who has been immersed in efforts to understand and tackle serious youth violence and gangs since he was a teenager, says there needs to be a rethink about how the issue is addressed.In the West Midlands, police were dealing with 14 knife offences every day last year, according to freedom of information figures, while official statistics showed a worrying increase in gun crimes. Pinkney believes that the susceptibility of young people to serious street violence warrants a public health approach. You can say, yes, poverty is the reason 鈥?but for some groups of peop
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