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English Media Coursework: Knife City Knife crime incidents in Britain have been growing rapidly and it has been showed in statistics that it has doubled in the past 2 years: from 25,500 in 2005 to 64,000 in the year to April 2007. These figures mean that each day last year saw, on average, 175 robberies at knife point in England and Wales; showing it soared from 110 the year before and 69 in 2004-5. This study was made by the Centre for Crime and Justice Studies (CCJS) at King's College London and is based on the government's own statistics. Knife crime has proven to be a considerable problem amongst young people, as they see carrying a knife as a way of glorifying themselves amongst their peers. Norman Brennan, chairman of the Victims of Crime Trust and a serving police officer, claimed that teenagers now "picked up knives as routinely as they would...

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