Carrot and stick programme to reduce youth violence in 5 cities

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Carrot and stick programme to reduce youth violence in 5 cities

Focused deterrence scheme to be piloted with funding from Home Office and Youth Endowment Fund.

Date - 24th May 2023
By - Gary Mason

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A diversion scheme successfully used in the US and Scotland to tackle gang related homicides is to be adopted by five English cities to combat serious youth violence. The focused deterrence approach was pioneered in Boston in the mid-1990s to...

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