{"id":21467,"date":"2018-11-07T09:22:44","date_gmt":"2018-11-07T09:22:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=21467"},"modified":"2018-11-07T09:22:44","modified_gmt":"2018-11-07T09:22:44","slug":"uk-stabbing-risk-highest-for-children-straight-after-school-study-finds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=21467","title":{"rendered":"UK stabbing risk highest for children straight after school, study finds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\"><cite class=\"el-editorial-source\"> (CNN)<\/cite>Children are most likely to become victims of stabbings as they walk home from school, a London study has found, as its authors warn of the &#8220;endemic&#8221; nature of knife crime among youths in the UK capital.<\/p>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">The risk of stabbing for children younger than 16 jumps significantly in the immediate hours after schools close, with crimes usually occurring close to a victim&#8217;s home, according to research by doctors at Queen Mary University, <a href=\"http:\/\/bmjopen.bmj.com\/lookup\/doi\/10.1136\/bmjopen-2018-023114\" target=\"_blank\">published Tuesday in the journal BMJ Open<\/a>.<\/div>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">The findings underline the worsening epidemic of violent crime in the city, where homicides have risen for the third consecutive year and have prompted calls for a greater focus on preventative techniques to tackle knife crime.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(CNN)Children are most likely to become victims of stabbings as they walk home from school, a London study has found, as its authors warn of the &#8220;endemic&#8221; nature of knife crime among youths in the UK capital.The risk of stabbing for children younger than 16 jumps significantly in the immediate hours after schools close, with&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":21468,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21467","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21467","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21467"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21467\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/21468"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21467"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21467"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21467"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}