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CRAIG PINKNEY

My name is Craig Pinkney. I'm a criminologist, urban youth specialist, and lecturer at a local university in Birmingham. In recent times, the West Midlands has experienced a rise in gun crime and gang-related murders.

My article, "On Road Youth Work," essentially, is a theoretical concept that looks at street-based youth work that operates outside traditional hours. Hours of 9 till 5 or 9 till 6, where workers might do centre-based work- that might do detach work or outreach work engaging with young people.

But "On Road Youth Work" looks at what happens outside of those hours, at 9 till 10, at 9 till 12, at 1 till 2 in the morning, when individuals might be engaged in certain types of behaviours will also require help and assistance. That help and assistance- that is not always founded by law enforcement that individuals might need support from a youth worker.

So this particular article focuses on some of the challenges from frontline youth workers that work in the field or work in the community that experience issues of violence and how they respond to those issues and highlighting what are some of the key things that an individual needs to be able to respond effectively to individuals that are going through, engaged in, or trying to desist or get out of that type of behaviour.

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