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Projects Preventing Young People Joining Gangs Face Cuts
11 May 2011
Despite high-profile initiatives to tackle knife and gun crime, projects that help prevent young people joining gangs are facing closure due to cuts.
Denzel is "a hero", he says. "I go anywhere." A confident 20-year-old, he swaggers around the youth club on the estate in south London where we meet, bumping shoulders with younger boys. By his own definition, he is a "bad man". He started stealing and selling drugs when he was 16 and for the past four years he has been wrapped up in a cycle of violence and crime.