knife crime
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- Knife crime is up 34 percent in a year.
We're going to halve knife crime in a decade.
- We're going to halve knife crime in a decade.
- Why wouldn't you want knife crime tackled as harshly as possible?
- I've never seen crime, violent crime, gun crime, knife crime as bad as it is now.
- Sarah from London says what is going to be done to tackle knife crime.
- I need to try and reduce these deaths on the streets because you know yourself, knife crime, youth violence has gone through the roof.
- Yeah, so I'm going to schools, prisons, youth clubs, talking about knife crime, gun crime, where it starts and where it ends.
- And yeah, this happens very little knife crime, by the way, interestingly, very few stabbings.
- So yeah, I try and teach people about the ripple effect knife crime in the UK that has risen ridiculously high levels.
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Knife crime has become a significant issue, with many communities feeling the impact of knife crime.
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Every 14 minutes, there's a knife crime across England and Wales.
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I still teach in East London and knife crime is out of control.
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We have knife crime, rather than gun crime.
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Knife crime is a really scary problem in the UK.
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Local authorities are implementing new measures to reduce knife crime in urban areas.
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The rise in knife crime has prompted a series of public safety campaigns across the UK.
Synonyms
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An attack where someone is hurt or killed with a knife
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An attack that injures someone with a knife
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Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'violent crime in which a knife is used' is directly and transparently composed from 'knife' (a cutting weapon) + 'crime' (an unlawful act) with no idiomatic or metaphorical shift. This noun-noun compounding pattern is straightforward and cross-linguistically common, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents would readily understand the MWE.
Etymology
Knife crime comes from the simple picture of a knife being used to commit a crime. Because people used knives in attacks, the phrase now means 'violent crime' where a knife is the 'weapon'.