Majority of young people skeptically compared to the national approach to razor crime – survey

More than 80% of young people in Great Britain are not convinced that it is more difficult to buy knives.

A survey of below 1,030 people in Great Britain aged 16 to 24 showed that 83% of those surveyed were concerned that the youth violence in the country was over the youth power in the country, while 46% gave them or someone they knew directly from this topic.

About 83% of the respondents stated that, despite the legislation that aimed to make buy knives more difficult, alternative opportunities to buy them, while 72% said, the law focused more on the symptoms than on the causes of knife crime.

The government has announced a number of measures to take in against knife crime, including the retailers who report the police in the amount of masses or suspicious sales, and increasing the prison sentence to two years for the sale of weapons to children or illegal sounds such as Zombie knives.

The research, which questioned a nationally representative sample of people and was carried out by the Kiyan Prince Foundation and Savanta, also showed that 71% regarded the razor crime as a social problem and a criminal, while 66% of the opinion that violence itself was too much of violence itself and not on its basic causes.

In order to combat knife crime, 76% of the respondents demanded more investments in local psychiatric services, sports and social clubs, while 77% wanted larger employment opportunities.

The publication of the research coincides with the beginning of the knife crime week and the 19th anniversary of the death of Kiyan Prince, a footballer of the youth man of Queens Park Ranger.

The 15 -year -old Kiyan was fatally stabbed when he went into a fight outside of his school.

His father Mark Prince, the founder and managing director of the Kiyan Prince Foundation, said: “It is clear that the current approach to reduce youth violence does not work.

“Young people in this country are faced with unprecedented challenges and we do not give you adequate support.

“Without a coherent approach to public health for this problem, it will not improve.”

In a check published by the Home Office, which was published in February, the lowest price of online single dealers was found for a machet of more than £ 10 £ 7:13, with most of them between 20 and 40 GBP.

The report also examined the “gray market”, where sounds bought in large quantities and illegally resold on social media or face to face.

As part of the further measures announced by the government, technology companies and individual managers are also confronted with a fine of up to 70,000 GBP every time a position in connection with knife crime is not removed from their locations.

A prohibition of Ninja swords will come into force until summer, which means that it will be illegal to have the weapon from August 1st.

The home office was contacted for a comment.