30 May
Barry Wilson, 29, died after returning to his home in Bristol from an anti-crime day organised by police. The father-of-three was stabbed in front of his young daughter. His partner was pregnant with their fourth child at the time of his death.
26 January
Linda Hewitt, 45 was found dead outside her house early in the day after being attacked by a man close to Durham city.
London | 20 July 2006 | 19:47
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Northern Ireland knife culture needs to be challenged The culture of young people in Northern Ireland carrying and using knives must be challenged, the government has said. Criminal Justice Minister David Hanson has launched a 12-week consultation on knife crime to get people’s opinions on how to tackle this growing problem. "Although knife crime is lower than in other parts of the UK, we have to act now to challenge this growing knife culture," he said. |
Sociologist and lecturer at York University Simon Winlow is dismissive of policy initiatives that try to produce quick fixes to complicated social problems.
He believes the way to stop young men carrying knives is to make the socially excluded societies, where there is high welfare dependence and low employment, part of the British system.
| “We have to make these people valuable.” Simon Winlow |
Mr Hanson said teachers and community groups would be among those invited to a conference on knife crime, which he will chair in September.
"We must continue to challenge the culture, especially amongst our young people, of carrying and using knives, and send out the message to those who would use knives to harm others, that it is unacceptable."
Mr Winlow believes these kinds of policies are selling ideas to convince the electorate that a certain problem is being addressed.
“Our politicians could do more to make British society more equitable to be concerned not just with criminal justice, but with social justice.”
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