ARCHIVE: UK Gangs & Knife Crime-What Governments Are Getting Wrong (Gabriel Krauze)

FIRST AIRED: 09/12/2020. We speak to Booker Prize-listed author Gabriel Krauze about his new book ‘Who They Was’ which provides an account of life inside the gangs and criminal underworld of the UK. He discusses criticism he has received for the book saying he glorifies gang culture, why many critics don’t understand those involved in gangs and criminality also have human emotions and regular lives, his own personal experience of being involved in gangs while pursuing a university degree, why the realities of criminal lifestyles can’t be glorified, what the government has gotten wrong with addressing knife crime and gang violence and much more!

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