A Surgeon's Experience of Knife Injuries | Rudy Crawford
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“It’s not always a medical solution that’s required, it’s more a social and political solution that’s required.”
SHOW DESCRIPTION
Location: Skype
Date: Wednesday, 22nd January 2020
Company: Former Surgeon at Glasgow Royal Infirmary
Role: Surgeon
Throughout the 90s and early 2000s, Scotland was suffering from an epidemic of knife crime. Glasgow had become the murder capital of Europe and Scotland was the most dangerous developed nation in the world.
In 2005, Strathclyde Police created a Violence Reduction Unit (VRU). The VRU built a strategy to reduce violence by taking a public health approach to violent behaviour and bringing together all agencies in health, education and social work.
In 2006 Scottish police recorded 10,110 incidents of handling an offensive weapon, however, by 2015-16 this number had dropped to 3,111 marking a 69% decrease in a decade.
During this period, Rudy Crawford was a Surgeon at Glasgow Royal Infirmary and witnessed the escalating problem of knife crime in Glasgow, and across Scotland. In this interview, we discuss the prevalence of knife crime in Glasgow, the treatment of knife and gun injuries and the broader psychological impact on victims and their families.
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Mentioned in the show:
Wikipedia: 2014 Scottish independence referendum
NRP: How Glasgow Cut Crime After Once Being The 'Murder Capital Of Europe'
BBC: Scotland named the most violent country in the developed world by the United Nations
The Guardian: Scotland has second highest murder rate in Europe
The Independent: Glasgow is Britain's murder capital as knife crime spirals
The Times: Glasgow sheds ‘murder capital’ reputation as youth crime falls dramatically
Quartz: The numbers behind the UK’s knife crime “national emergency”
Reuters: UK PM backs 'stop-and-search' power, says will create 10,000 more spaces in prisons
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