Should we treat (violent) crime as something to be cured rather than punished?

[davidbfpo]

An interesting viewpoint on the public health approach to violence - can the much-hyped Glasgow approach work elsewhere, notably in London?
Link:https://members.tortoisemedia.com/20...icking_plaster

This year has seen an increase in public place violence, invariably with knives and with many deaths:

Two-thirds of police forces in England and Wales recently responded to a Freedom of Information request from Channel 4's Dispatches which showed that, in those force areas, the number of teenagers recorded as having killed with a knife had risen from 26 in 2016 to 46 last year. Patient records from hospitals in England show that seven years ago 141 teenagers were admitted after assaults with a sharp implement like a knife. Last year it was almost twice that - with a clear rising trend.

Link:https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-47443956