Beyond the Blade

Beyond the Blade is a project, set up by The Guardian, attempting to uncover the way that knife crime is reported in the British press and how young people and children are being represented. It aims to learn more about the victims themselves rather than the assailants. Surprisingly, there are no public records of the number of children and teenagers killed due to knife crime in Britain. Why is this? 

• Are there more crimes being committed than we are aware of?
• Is it just youth committing these crimes against other youth?
• Who decides which deaths and crimes are "worthy" of being reported? 
• Does it need to be reported more to create an awareness or less so that it doesn't appear glamourised? 
• Does the ethnicity, gender, location and social background of the child effect the representation?
• What impact, if any, do these representations have on society?

Read this article which tries to explain some of the questions posed above and highlights some of this year's tragic loss of life. Within 3 months there have already been 9 deaths. Two of these are from London - Brent to be precise.