You are browsing the Blog for gun.
Mending Broken Britain? Education’s Response
Last February, Professor Gus John delivered a keynote address at the “Mending Broken Britain? Education’s Response” Conference, which was organised by Curriculum Enrichment for the Common Era (CE4CE) and sponsored by Birmingham City University. Against the background of the riots that spread across Britain in August 2011, this national conference aimed to unpick something of the complex
...read more...
Police to Stop and Search Less?
The following letter was sent to the London Evening Standard on January 12th, 2012. At long last police in London have acknowledged what young people, communities and academic researchers have been saying for decades and particularly since the escalation of stop and search operations, supposedly in an attempt to tackle gun and knife crime. Stop
...read more...
Letter to Rt Hon Theresa May MP
The following letter was sent to Rt Hon Theresa May MP (by then, Home Secretary in David Cameron’s Cabinet), on July 4th, 2011. Dear Home Secretary, Call for a People’s Inquiry into Gun and Knife Killings in the African Community I write in relation to the recent upsurge of gun- and knife-enabled killings involving young
...read more...
Serious Youth Violence in the Capital
The following paper was submitted for consideration by the London Mayor’s ‘Time for Action’ and Community Safety Teams and the London Mayor’s Expert Advisory Group. Context: On 13 December 2010, the Mayor’s Expert Advisory Group (MEAG) received and discussed a paper: Serious Youth Violence in London – a brief retrospective on recent action that was
...read more...
