Combined figures from the 2005-06 British Crime Survey and police-recorded crime show that 12.6 per cent of the group had experienced violent crime in the previous year.
Chris Eades, information officer at the Centre for Crime and Justice Studies, said: "Offending, Crime and Justice Survey figures show young people who have been the victims of violent crime are twice as likely to carry a knife as those who haven't."
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