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Faced with cutbacks to youth services and limited opportunities, risk-taking behaviour can, for some, become highly alluring.
Trump officials plan to send asylum seekers from the US to El Salvador while their claims are processed. That would expose these vulnerable people to grave dangers, says a political violence expert.
At present South Africa is simply placing a potentially dangerous market into the hands of criminal syndicates and international traffickers.
Successes by the army and police on the Cape Flats will depend entirely on levels of cooperation established on an ad hoc basis.
The relationship between street slang used by young people and secret codes deployed by gang members is not always straightforward.
The law aimed at fighting gangs lacks the power to disrupt their activities.
Law enforcement’s historical tendency to treat crimes committed by white power groups as isolated incidents has allowed them to flourish.
MS-13 is not the biggest or most violent gang in the US. But its grisly murders and Latino membership inflame Americans’ anxiety about immigration. GOP campaign ads stoke those fears to attack Democrats.
Toronto Mayor John Tory’s use of race-coded words to describe gun violence in Toronto, including “thugs, sewer rats and gangsters,” stokes racism and serves to justify policing Black communities.
The policing of black British culture has a long history.
The problem is the disproportionate amount of attention on the so-called African gang problem and the way these incidents are being reported.
Youth workers try to use a ‘window of opportunity’ to help young victims of violent crime get out of a cycle of violence.
Trump hopes migrants won’t come if they know their children will be taken away. That grim logic ignores the inescapable dangers that drive thousands of Central Americans to flee their homes each year.
Mental distress, addiction, debt, family dysfunction and abuse are all problems to be milked for profit.
When big data is used for police profiling and surveillance, it puts human rights on the line.
Violence in UK schools is at record levels, but expelling pupils isn’t always the answer.
Thousands of young people have got on their bikes to make a political statement in London’s streets. The government would do well to pay attention.
The British government is not facing up to the serious challenges it faces.
Young people in El Salvador are finding themselves caught up in the war between the gangs and the state.
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Professor of International Politics, Lancaster University
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Honorary research affiliate, Centre of Criminology, University of Cape Town
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Lecturer in Policing Studies, School of Justice Studies., Liverpool John Moores University
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Professor of Politics, Royal Holloway University of London
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Director of Slang and New Language Archive, Faculty of Arts and Humanities, King's College London
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Professor of Sociology, University of Essex
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Junior Researcher (Postdoc), The University of Queensland
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Research Fellow (Henry Jackson Society - Centre on Radicalisation & Terrorism), Royal Holloway University of London
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Senior Research Fellow, German Institute of Global and Area Studies
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Professor, Center for Research on North America, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM)
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Lecturer in International Human Rights Law at Essex Law School, University of Essex
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PhD Candidate in Latin American Studies, University of Liverpool
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Associate Research Fellow, European Centre for Environment and Human Health, University of Exeter
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Director of Research, Florida International University
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Senior Lecturer in Criminology, University of Brighton
