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The UK government wants to crack down on knife crime – research can tell us why young people start carrying weapons
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Christian Christensen on X: "Notion that UK has stabbing epidemic not present in US is pure bullshit. Knife crime stats from 2012-2016 show that stabbings are far more common in the US
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