Is The Spate Of Knife Crime Linked To Poverty And Deprivation?

[anotheoldgit]

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/jul/15/knife-crime-tory-austerity-sadiq-khan-london

We had very much poverty and deprivation at the end of WW2, but there was never the amount of killings by knife and guns that we see today.

[ummmm]

And drugs!

These deprived areas seem to be mostly council areas living more or less on top of each other.

[dannyk13]

No, it is more probably linked with drug gangs.

[spathiphyllum]

The drugs are a result of the environment austerity has left for these youths. If their environment was nice and catering, they wouldn't do drugs.

[naomi24]

No. That's an excuse.

[dannyk13]

Spath // If their environment was nice and catering, they wouldn't do drugs.//
Not true:-
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2019/04/05/middle-classes-likely-take-cocaine-ecstasy-working-class-poll/

[ummmm]

It's the selling of drugs, not the taking of them.

[spathiphyllum]

Implying that's an exscuse is implying that people take drugs for literally no reason at all. If this is the case.... why are these youths doing drugs, but for example, your kids aren't?

[agchristie]

//If their environment was nice and catering, they wouldn't do drugs.//

There are numerous reasons why people do drugs and I doubt very much that environmental conditions are one of them Spath.

[Cloverjo]

It’s not just poverty and deprivation. It’s culture and opportunity.

[spathiphyllum]

Danny, this will be enlightening.

https://www.brucekalexander.com/articles-speeches/rat-park/148-addiction-the-view-from-rat-park

[spathiphyllum]

You doubt things because you have no clue if they're true or not.

Read up on some studied of drugs and addiction. 9/10 times... environment is to 'blame'

[Jordyboy9]

My carefully thought out answer to this would be,
The influx of Johnny foreigners bringing in their culture has to have a 80% blame to this problem.

[ummmm]

Spath - a lot of these gangs are drug dealers.

[spathiphyllum]

Jordy, britian has one of the worlds largest drug cultures.

[spathiphyllum]

https://www.vice.com/en_uk/article/43ja7g/theres-a-reason-the-uk-takes-more-coke-k-and-mdma-than-anywhere-else

[ToraToraTora]

no, this is society gone soft on drug dealing scum gangsters. Blame TROB.

[spathiphyllum]

"Spath - a lot of these gangs are drug dealers."

I understand. But it's supply and demand. No demand no supply.

[naomi24]

spath, If kids are doing drugs, they can afford to buy drugs. Where's the poverty?

[spathiphyllum]

I never said anything about poverty. austerity will take things like youth services, police and community support away from these youths.

[naomi24]

Always someone else's fault.