| Comment | Despite gentrification and economic renewal from the 60s onwards, gang-based knife crime remained a stubborn problem in and around Glasgow - basically an ongoing cycle of gang culture that resisted the benefits of social change.
Here is an excellent article which talks about the Violence Reduction Unit (VRU), introduced by Strathclyde Police in 2005, which decided to follow some radical US programmes and to treat violent crime as a public health issue, to huge success.
https://www.theguardian.com/news/2018/jul/24/violent-crime-cured-rather-than-punished-scottish-violence-reduction-unit |
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