Punishment won’t get rid of knife crime
Mark Johnson argues that the government’s response to knife-crime hysteria, the youth crime action plan, is an expensive package of measures, but it is almost exclusively punitive in nature which h believes is not effective.
Type
Media
Topic
Drugs & Alcohol, Mark Johnson, Mental Health, Prison, Young People
Date
23/07/2008
Date Accessed
19/07/2024
Publisher
The Guardian
Author
Mark Johnson
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