People look for ways to park problems like this as being not just localised but kind of balkanised.

So it's about them and what they do.

And also in this particular iteration of the moral panic, that this isn't a mainstream British thing.

It's a black thing.

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Gary Young is an author, broadcaster and a professor of sociology at the University of Manchester.

Formerly an editor at large of the Guardian newspaper, he has written five books, including Another Day in the Death of America,

which chronicled the lives of ten children and adolescents who were shot dead on one day in November 2013.

I've wanted to talk to Gary since his award-winning investigation for the Guardian. who was shot dead on one day in November 2013.

I've wanted to talk to Gary since his award-winning investigation for the Guardian in 2018,

called Beyond the Blade, where he took a similar approach to another day in the death of America,

except he took a year, not a day, and he told the stories of the 39 children and adolescents who had been stabbed to death in 2017.

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