assignment 31.2
pre-production research part 1: Research for a community media project

Knife crime:

over the years knife crime has been a growing issue in today's day and age and over the year of 2017-2018 the offences of knife crime has almost doubled in size and by the the month of June 2019 studies has shown that it has grown by 7%. London has the biggest issues concerning knife crime,
it is estimated that per year there is 108 stabbings that mean that there could potentially be one stabbing per 3-4 days, this heaving relates to gang related activites, the highest rate of knife crime has been in the area's of southwalk and Lambeth. In the yeart 2018 35% of all knife crime in the uk was recorded to be in the bourough of london. it is more of an issue growing within children teens and young adults, as there are more teens joining gangs and being affiliated with goups that go out with a the soul reason to catch and kill opposing gang members, the reason of this behavior could be because of the way some are treated at home or weather being in a gang gives the teen a feel of self worth but most of the time teens and young adults join gangs to feel powerful. i believe the violent music genre known as drill music stongly contrabuted to the rise in knife crime as there are many songs talking about stabbings. there are many movies and books that promote this kind of violence this is exposed to kids and cxould be one of the reasons why there isa a rise ing knife crimes amoung teens. this research