Knife crime research - unit 24

1) The youngest person to be arrested for carrying a knife is 12
http://www.direct.gov.uk/en/CRIMEJUSTICEANDTHELAW/Typesofcrime/DG_181675- This was the site i found this on as the Direct Gov making it straight from the goverment so it will be true and based on original facts

2) in 2007 27 People were stabbed to death in london alone
http://www.sayno2knives.co.uk/about.html - This site was the most helpful to me as it showed all the important facts that were useful to me  
 
3) The first Fatal Stabing of 2008 came just hours after the new year.
http://www.sayno2knives.co.uk/about.html This site was very helpful to me as it was a site based purely on fact's and figures based around Knife Crime and then helped me to have quick one line sentence's  

4) On May bank holiday 2006 (27th-29th May) the police recorded 50 Knife attacks
http://www.sayno2knives.co.uk/about.html

5) From July 2007 - October 2007 there were 5,500 serious knife crimes

http://safe.met.police.uk/knife_crime_and_gun_crime/get_the_facts.html - I used this site for a few facts as it was comng stright from the police making it more reliable and trust worthy.

 6) 28% of children in schools and 57% that were excluded said they have carried a knife in the last year

http://safe.met.police.uk/knife_crime_and_gun_crime/get_the_facts.html - Again i used this site as it seemed the best for reliable information. It was very informative and helped me get inportant information

7) 62% of children who were excluded were a victim carried a kife compared with the 51% who didnt.

 http://www.scotsman.com/news/knife-crime-sharp-facts-1-1493677 i didn't find this site that helpful as it was a big chunk of information which was hard to read. The site was a scottish site s o knife crime proberaly wasn't as common as it would be in north London

8)A survey was done with 4,715 pupils in school and 687 excluded pupils aged 11-16 and were asked "If they had carried or used a weapon -
http://www.thebigquestion.co.uk/teachers-resource/knife-crime-facts-stats/ - This was the sit i used for this and a majority of my research i found it helpful as it was based purely for the sake of knife crime being taught to students by teacher's.

9)15% of children in schools felt "a bit" or "very unsafe" according to the Youth Justice Board
http://www.knifecrimes.org/worried-about.html -I found this site helpful as it was aimed at young people to help then deal/ avoid knife crime

10) For the facts below on illegal knives that are not allowed to be carried in public.
http://www.direct.gov.uk/en/CRIMEJUSTICEANDTHELAW/Typesofcrime/DG_181675 - This site was good to me as it was from the goverment and gave me a full list of knives and a numerous ammount of facts

• flick knives - knives where the blade is hidden inside the handle and shoots out when a button is pressed; these are also called 'switchblades' or 'automatic knivesbutterfly knives
• disguised knives - where the blade is hidden inside something like a belt buckle or fake mobile phone
• gravity knives
• sword-sticks
• samurai swords
• hand-claws
• foot-claws
• belt-buckle knives
• push daggers
• kubotan (cylindrical container, holding spikes)
• shuriken (also known as 'death stars' or 'throwing stars')
• kusari-gama (sickle attached to a rope, cord or wire)
• kyoketsu-shoge (hook-knife attached to a rope, cord or wire)
• kusari (weight attached to a rope, cord or wire)