The devastating impact of gang violence on individuals, communities and society as a whole has become an increasing fear for many young people in a lot of inner-city areas.
While gun-related violence and an increase in gangs and territorialism are relatively new in the UK, it is important to keep the issue in perspective - involvement in gangs and weapons-rela-ted activity is not a feature of the vast majority of young people's lives. Where present, it mainly exists in deprived and neglected inner-city areas and can often be linked to more serious organised crime, involving complex networks and sophisticated criminal organisations. However, local programmes have a crucial role to play in tackling the conditions that give rise to involvement by some young people in violent crime.
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