Violent crime
What is violent crime?
Violent crime is where someone threatens or physically hurts you,and also includes crime where a weapon is used.It will be classed as a violent crime if the offender clearly intends to physically hurt you.
What do violent crimes include?
Violent crimes can include assult,gun and knife crime,sexual assult,gang violence,hate crimes,robbery and murder.All of these things will hurt people in different ways.
Where does it happen?
Violent crime can happen in public spaces such as streets,clubs and pubs even at home.The most important thing to remember is that non of this is your fault.No one has the right to hurt you.
How violent crime can effect you?
It can be extremely frightening to experience this and as well as being hurt physically you can also be hurt emotionally.Some of these feelings could be blaming yourself,extreme anger towards the attacker or physical symptoms such as shacking,sleeplessness and crying all the time.All of these reactions are completely normal and you have your family and friends to confidently speak to and they will also support you.So will violent crime increase of decrease?Violent crime needs to stop.
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Hi buzzing_atom,
Well done for considering a different perspective, that of a victim of a crime. This issue focuses on reasons behind a rise in violent crimes rates, especially knife crime. But it is always important to consider that we might be talking with people who have direct experience of these things.
With this in mind, what should we make sure we do in our discussions? For example: Not make assumptions.
You've thought about how someone might be affected by violent crime. You rightly say that speaking to an adult or friend you trust is an important way to get help.
If any young person feels any of these things. They can also call Childline free:
www.childline.org.uk/get-support/contacting-childline/
thankyou and i will remember that people have experienced violent crime.What we should do in discussions is that if anyone wants to not be in the lesson they could ask if they can read or leave and im sure the teacher would understand.We could also not go to much into detail because the things that we are talking about could be exactly what other people have experienced and they would know how it feels and they would start to be uncomfterble.Also people who have experienced these tragic times might not want people to know about what they have been through so we have to keep in mind that people who have experienced this will be in the classroom to
I think it is really important in these discussions to think carefully before speaking. There might be somebody in your class that has experienced violent crime and we don't want to bring up horrible memories or upset them. If discussions do upset someone I think they should have the right to ask to leave the classroom and I am sure the teachers would understand.
This comment has a star for open-mindedness. Well done for empathising with a different point of view.
great comment
well done but you should make more argument
Can you show how you would do this?
You could add a question
ok thanks for your feedback
thats true because adding questions are good
that is a very good idea but what type of question should i add?
i agee with you because some people have been through this and it is very upsetting it should be stoped
it is very true because people get hurt in different ways
I really like how you have been talking about how the victim feels because usually everyone talks about how the person doing the crime feels instead and I like that.
thankyou and im glad you have spotted th difference
I think that it is very important to know what violent crime is.
i think it is very important aswell because some people might think its right to do it but thats only because they dont know what it is