Youths and Knive Crime in Britain

If one takes time to read the papers and listen to the news, all you hear is youth crime everywhere with youths brandishing knives all around. And for sometime now the city of London have experienced too many deaths in form of knife crime with statistics showing this has been the worse record so far in the history of the country.

In fact the government is so concerned that some quick legislation was proposed to arrest the situation such as taking the culprits to visit victims of knife crimes in the hospitals, arresting any youth found with a knife under a stop and search rule but these steps are been addressed as cosmetic.

Also research has revealed that most of those involved in this crime are primarily youths and are normally boys. They often go to the point of stabbing their victims to death without any respect for law or sacredness of life. They are even proud to carry the knife on them like an asset and ready to put it to use at the slightest provocation little wonder the knife crime keep increasing. Thank God that gun is not licensed in Great Britain, one wonders what damage that would have caused if they can do all this with knives.

We can not forget in a hurry how Nigerian children like Damilola Taylor and others were murdered in cold blood and who knows the next to be hit by this rampaging monsters disguising as youths. Am consoled now that it is not just the black children that are subject of attacks, even the white children and adults too are becoming victims going by the recent killings we have seen. But when will all this nonsense ever stop is the question on everybody’s lips

In my own view, l don’t see it stopping now because the government itself is disconnected from the needs of the youths little wonder they have become the devil’s hand tool. The whole drama makes me weep for the kind of society we have created for ourselves.

Firstly, the uncensored electronic media have exposed the youths to so much violence and crime. As a result, they have become more vulnerable to what they see everyday on television and the internet. And it is only natural and commonsensical for them to practice what they see especially since they have so much latent energy not been channelled positively. The youths here have been left on their own too much that their development rest on external forces instead of internal forces like a cohesive family system, good engagement programmes in and after school. How else can a society bedevilled with lot of divorces and broken marriages bring up children that are responsible to the society as a whole. This accounts for why the number of youths engaged in various social vices keep rising to the North and added to that the actual crisis is still being underestimated.