Latest Home Office research suggests children and young people are playing a more active role in the operation of street gangs in England.
The study measures the perceptions of practitioners involved in the government's Ending Gang and Youth Violence programme, which launched in January 2012 and now targets 52 gang "hot spots" in England - 19 of them in London.
Most respondents agreed that gangs were involved in drugs markets, violence and turf wars. They thought that gang-involved girls and children sometimes stored drugs and firearms, or set up attacks on rival gang members, but they were also aware of their violent and sexual exploitation (see box).
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