{"id":4116,"date":"2018-11-12T10:40:30","date_gmt":"2018-11-12T10:40:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/?p=4116"},"modified":"2019-05-21T14:13:37","modified_gmt":"2019-05-21T13:13:37","slug":"inequality-must-be-tackled-to-stop-london-crime-surge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/2018\/11\/12\/inequality-must-be-tackled-to-stop-london-crime-surge\/","title":{"rendered":"Inequality must be tackled to stop London crime surge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Professor Larry Ray comments on how the policy and government can take a better long-term stance to tackle the rising crime rate in London. He says &#8220;To be effective, increased resources, policing, violence reduction units, community cohesion initiatives need to be combined with serious and far-reaching measures to reduce inequalities and deprivation in London and other cities in the UK.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>To read Professor Ray&#8217;s comments in full, see the University&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/news\/culture\/19934\/expert-comment-inequality-and-social-deprivation-must-be-tackled-to-stop-london-crime-surge\">News Centre<\/a> article.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Professor Larry Ray comments on how the policy and government can take a better long-term stance to tackle the rising crime rate in London. He &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/2018\/11\/12\/inequality-must-be-tackled-to-stop-london-crime-surge\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7098,"featured_media":4117,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[43783,10482,124,139988],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4116"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7098"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4116"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4116\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4118,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4116\/revisions\/4118"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4117"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}