Gangs, Youth Violence and Public Policy

This new Perspectives report finds that attempts to label youth violence as a ‘gang problem' may be stopping the police and youth services from taking effective preventative action and risks criminalising all young people - especially young black men. The tragic and disturbing patterns of violence between young people are a legitimate cause for concern but the attribution of this tragic violence to ‘gangs' obscures more than it illuminates and is stopping effective action being taken to tackle the violence.

ISBN-13:978-1-9067320-0-4 (print)
EAN: 9781906732004 (print)