Learning lessons from knife crime
This week's Panorama on young people jailed for knife crimes definitely had an immediate impact on the audience and we've since had over 2,300 requests for from schools, prisons and youth organisations.
The response was indicative of the views in our , in which 84% of those surveyed thought that young people would benefit from hearing the views of young offenders involved in knife crime. This increased to 90% for the 16-24 year olds that were polled.
Now as was alluded to in the Panorama programme, many of the offenders felt that it was only when they were already caught up in the criminal justice system that their behaviour was tackled. While making the film Raphael spoke to one of the many people who support young offenders in jail, Joan Gibbs who works as the Head of Risk and Offender Management at. You can watch exclusive highlights from their conversation below
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One of the points she made was that it's vital that work is done with young people before it's too late. There are lots of projects across the UK that are trying to do that. We've made a short film about one called Lyrical Expression facilitated by the . It was set up by twenty-two-year-old Hadel.
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Deputy Editor, Tom Giles has also been blogging about the editorial challenges his team faced in making this film on the Editor's blog.
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At 26th Dec 2009, david timmins wrote:my step son is in moorlands prison and knife crime does not end when sentenced. my son is sharing a cell with another inmate who has a knife(shank) in his cell. there has been a cell search and the prison officers have taken no notice of this. my step son fears for his life inside... if the officers dont give a damn, who will!!!! inside it looks like you have to fend for yourself. can your programme get inside this prison , as my lad says,"its gone to the wall"
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