Citation

Densley J, Deuchar R, Harding S. Youth Justice 2020; 20(1-2): 3-10.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2020, National Association for Youth Justice, Publisher SAGE Publishing)

DOI

10.1177/1473225420902848

PMID

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Abstract

This article introduces the special issue on UK gangs and youth violence. Written to coincide with the launch of the National Centre for Gang Research at the University of West London, this collection adds the voices of academics who have spent years researching serious violence to a conversation dominated by policymakers and media commentators. The authors examine trends in youth violence and offer a brief history of UK gang research before previewing the contribution of the seven empirical articles dealing with police gang databases, knife crime, county lines drug dealing, contextual safeguarding, offender mental health, gang disengagement and criminal desistance.

Language: en