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| Gang Culture, Liverpool | myspace.com/gangcultureliverpool |
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November 2008 – March 2009
This was an arts-based project that worked with people in Liverpool. The project took place in crime ‘hot spots’ with the aim of reducing the levels of crime in these areas. In particular, this project tackled gun, knife and violent crime. Our aim was to deliver practical sessions in youth clubs with detached youth work teams and with community groups using the arts as a tool for expression. We hope this project has empowered and informed individuals about gang culture in general and will help them make the right choices to prevent and reduce crime in their local area and Liverpool as a whole. We put together a dedicated team of practitioners with specialist skills in:
Accompanying the workshops, Hope Street worked on a piece of text-based research to help build a current picture of violent crime ‘hot spots’ in the city to be used for future planning by the BRM (Black & Racial Minority) steering group based at Liverpool Council for Voluntary Services, who funded this piece of work. We also captured some active research with the groups we worked with, to ensure their views/opinions on current hot spots/crime/gang culture in general were added to the overall piece of research. The findings of our research are now available to view - CLICK HERE TO READ REPORT If you are interested to learn more about this project or would like to make a comment please go to our myspace page www.myspace.com/gangcultureliverpool If you would like to know more about Hope Street work in general, go back to the home page. |