Knife crime is a significant issue for teenagers and young adults in the UK. The document discusses how teenagers often feel anxious, vulnerable, and unsafe when in public due to the risk of knife attacks. The rise of gang culture and drill music glamorizing violence has contributed to the normalization of knife carrying among youth and increased knife crime rates. Parents are now warning their young children about knife crime from as early as age 7 due to these safety concerns. The government has attempted to address the issue through policies like recruiting more police and youth programs, but knife crime continues to impact both victims and the mental well-being of many teenagers in the UK.
Knife crime is a significant issue for teenagers and young adults in the UK. The document discusses how teenagers often feel anxious, vulnerable, and unsafe when in public due to the risk of knife attacks. The rise of gang culture and drill music glamorizing violence has contributed to the normalization of knife carrying among youth and increased knife crime rates. Parents are now warning their young children about knife crime from as early as age 7 due to these safety concerns. The government has attempted to address the issue through policies like recruiting more police and youth programs, but knife crime continues to impact both victims and the mental well-being of many teenagers in the UK.
Knife crime is a significant issue for teenagers and young adults in the UK. The document discusses how teenagers often feel anxious, vulnerable, and unsafe when in public due to the risk of knife attacks. The rise of gang culture and drill music glamorizing violence has contributed to the normalization of knife carrying among youth and increased knife crime rates. Parents are now warning their young children about knife crime from as early as age 7 due to these safety concerns. The government has attempted to address the issue through policies like recruiting more police and youth programs, but knife crime continues to impact both victims and the mental well-being of many teenagers in the UK.
Knife crime is a significant issue for teenagers and young adults in the UK. The document discusses how teenagers often feel anxious, vulnerable, and unsafe when in public due to the risk of knife attacks. The rise of gang culture and drill music glamorizing violence has contributed to the normalization of knife carrying among youth and increased knife crime rates. Parents are now warning their young children about knife crime from as early as age 7 due to these safety concerns. The government has attempted to address the issue through policies like recruiting more police and youth programs, but knife crime continues to impact both victims and the mental well-being of many teenagers in the UK.
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The passage discusses the rising issue of knife crime among teenagers in the UK and some of the social and cultural factors influencing this trend, including gang culture, music, and lack of opportunities for young people.
The passage mentions factors such as gang culture, lack of opportunities, desire to fit in, influence of drill music promoting violence, and copying behaviors of peers.
Responses discussed include recruiting more police, using stop-and-search powers, opening more youth clubs, anti-knife campaigns, and parents warning children about knife crime at young ages.
Knife Crime
Script
Uneasy, anxious and unsafe.
This is what every teenager feels like when they walk. If it is through a town centre, to our houses, to school or just down the road. Some may think the worse like they will be attacked, and some may think they are vulnerable and defenceless. Society makes everyone change. It makes them question who they are and transforms people into something they truly are not. Being big, masculine and someone who is not pictured as a coward is something many teenage boys desire to be like. Deaths and fatal injuries are increasing in teenagers and young adults due to knife crime. Not only are some of these people unprotected, but some are provoking the danger and harm for others and creating an unsafe community for everyone.
Knife crime is an important topic across
teenagers and many young adults. Numbers are rising and as a society where everything is provoked and influenced over, things are only getting worse.
In this podcast, I will be talking about the
issues and problems teenagers face with Knife Crime being a top problem. As someone of age, this not only impacts other people around me but myself as well. It’s something that everyone thinks about and the number of teenagers that take part in these malicious acts are taking more and more lives as each day goes by and families are devastated by the loss of their young ones.
The emergence of street gang culture in many
marginalised areas has also seen an increased police presence, which further constrains young people’s liberty, whether they are involved in gangs or not.
From a desire to fit in at a young age, many
children and young teenagers result in copying and becoming almost a duplicate of everyone else.
The Conversation- a website aimed at the
audience of mainly teenagers, state: There have been many attempts to investigate why some young people resort to potentially fatal violence: from problems at home, to a lack of opportunity or simply a desire to fit in. The theory suggests that people who dress the same, or cover their faces, may act more aggressively and show less self-awareness and inhibition than they would otherwise.
In other words, if a group of people do one
thing- others will do the same as a part of an act to fit in, meaning they will influence over whatever they do and will complete the actions of anything told. To sustain a Knife is almost something normal for teenagers at this day and age and thinking about someone carrying one right now is no surprise. The numbers of teenagers that walk about with protection on them like a Knife almost is a something normal which makes the whole idea something so wrong.
The world today has music that is influencing
violence. The violence mainly promoted involves knives and guns. Drill music has been blamed, at least in part, for fuelling the surge of murders and other violent crimes. Gang disputes and postcode wars are played out online as rappers post videos mocking or threatening their rivals. Young children and teenagers look up to the people on social media and the music industry thinking they have a platform for good reasons however, because of the impact drill music and the lyrics used, teenagers and young adults see this as something to look up to and use the language and actions from lyrics to oppose different violence and knife crimes against others.
Not only does this type of music have this
effect on teenagers but their music videos include weapons, samurai swords, knives and so many weapons used just for the attention. Some lyrics talk about killing people whilst others talk about just a small stab in the wound, yet they are still on the internet for any young teenager to see, influencing their lifestyle into something evolving violence.
Should this still be aloud and is this the
main promote of knife crime and violence?
Teenagers are using Social Media to attract
other teenagers into this state. The way these teenagers glamorise their knives or weapons as if It is some sort of fashion statement. It’s as if they are glamorising violence as an image for themselves.
Rising knife crime has coincided with deep
cuts to the UK’s youth facilities. Children are so scared of becoming victims, they end up becoming the people carrying knives.
In such circumstances, people might do
everything they can do to try stay away from the world of knife crime.
According to Loughborough University, their
website about news states: “Children are not the problem, they are part of the solution.”
They say, “The spate of knife crimes in
London has whipped the media and politicians into a frenzy. Knife crime is now described as an “epidemic” that is spiralling out of control. “It’s impact on victims and communities is horrifying and the police and courts are seemingly powerless to address it.”
Sky news reports, Adults believe more than
half of children across the country carry a knife for protection, a survey has found.
Two-thirds, 66%- worried that children aged
between 10 and 18 could become victims of knife crime, with 61% admitting to worrying that children feel unsafe in their neighbourhood because of knife crime.
A Home Office spokesman said: "We are
determined to make our streets safer which is why we are recruiting 20,000 new police officers to protect our communities and have made it easier for them to use stop and search powers.
Because of this, even food chains have
resulted in trying to change people’s ways- “#knife-free” boxes are distributed to more than 200 chicken shops as a way, to help promote that this is something to be stopped.
Not only this, but A Home Office spokesman
said: "We are determined to make our streets safer which is why we are recruiting 20,000 new police officers to protect our communities and have made it easier for them to use stop and search powers.
They also state: "Our Serious Violence
Strategy also focuses on steering young people away from knife crime.
"Our #knifefree campaign challenges the myth
that carrying a knife makes you safer and we are investing over £220m in early intervention projects."
Hoping for a decrease in the amount of knife
carrying and crimes in the UK. It is said that more youth clubs, sports clubs, community centres and youth clubs have been opened to make areas safer for children.
The UK is hitting so hard with knife crime
that the worry of parents and guardians are beginning to tell their children about the issue of knife crime at a very young age.
The Express exclaims: “Terrified parents are
warning children about knife crime at the age
of just SEVEN.”
Parents are warning their children about
knife crime from the age of just SEVEN, a
shock study shows.
While most parents reckon 10 or 11 is the
right time to broach the tricky subject, one
in 10 has felt the need to raise the issue
during infant school, as matters get worse.
Some may disagree with the challenges parents
are going through with to secure their children in safe environments, Anti-knife crime campaigner Brooke Kinsella, whose brother Ben was stabbed to death in 2008 aged just 16, said: "You can't wrap up children in cotton wool and lock them up so they can't go out.
"But our children should not be worried about
knife crime. They should be thinking about exam results, where they want to go to college and what they want to do when they grow up. "They should not be worried that they are not going to grow up." Siobhan Freegard added: "Knives can change lives in seconds so it's vital we all know how to help victims quickly.”
As a teenager myself, the fear of going out
grows from time to time and so is It for many other teenagers and shouldn’t be something we spend 90% of our time thinking about but living out childhood in freedom and peace.
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