What’s behind the rise in knife crime on our streets
The Story
The Times
3.9 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 16 January 2025
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Summary
Analysis of a decade’s worth of sentencing data across England and Wales between 2013 and 2023 has revealed a worrying uptick in knife crime nationwide. For the first time, the contents of more than 4.7 million lines of crime and sentencing data have been used by The Times to build profiles of fatal stabbing victims and offenders convicted of knife possession.
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