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Posts Tagged ‘crime’

Top boy: stories of Hackney’s young drug dealers

By • Oct 9th, 2011 • Category: News

Ronan Bennett spent two years interviewing gang members in east London for his powerfully personal TV drama, Top Boy. Here he describes their hidden, hopeless world – and the lengths they’ll go to escape from it



After the riots: the Hackney worker teaching young men to be ambitious

By • Sep 20th, 2011 • Category: News

Youth worker Emeka Egbuonu’s book has much to teach policymakers following the riots, writes Rachel Williams



What caused the Hackney riots? A local teacher speaks out

By • Aug 25th, 2011 • Category: News

“You could see it coming…the kids don’t feel like they’re part of anything, they don’t feel they’re being heard”



Hackney: ‘these riots were about lack of opportunity’ – video

By • Aug 14th, 2011 • Category: News

Channel 4 video: a local filmmaker talks to two members of a gang about possible reasons for the riot and their relationship with the police



Hackney riots: ‘The message when youth clubs close is that no one cares’

By • Aug 13th, 2011 • Category: News

Half the borough’s children live in poverty. Missing, too, are the summer courses that kept minds and hands busy



What caused the Hackney riots? Local residents speak out

By • Aug 13th, 2011 • Category: News

“These teenagers have got nothing better to do… they think that they’re well hard”



UK riots: don’t shut these kids out now

By • Aug 13th, 2011 • Category: Opinion

Put the shutters up on the shops, but not in our minds. A punitive and condemning reaction simply mirrors the alienation so many already experience



Boris Johnson says London riots “are not a simple issue.”

By • Aug 12th, 2011 • Category: News

London’s Tory Mayor has said that the riots’ “background field of causation” is “very, very, various.”



Hackney riots: why here? why now?

By • Aug 12th, 2011 • Category: News

What were the reasons for this week’s violent disturbances in the borough?



The militarisation of policing the riots would be a deadly mistake

By • Aug 12th, 2011 • Category: Opinion

Yes, we must regain control of the streets, but loose talk about rubber bullets and water cannon will achieve nothing