%X We explore young people’s experiences and perceptions of knife crime,
and we compare these to the understanding of police experts, to explore
the perceptions shaping trust in the police and policing. We carry out an
experience sampling survey deployed using a mobile application reflecting on
safety and knife crime, to understand young people’s daily lived experiences.
We then use the mental models approach to interview young people
and police experts and construct a shared mental model which identifies
mismatches between the two groups and key areas of discord related to
breakdown of trust and communication. We identify gaps, misconceptions
and expectations for re-establishing trust and propose strategies to tackle
knife crime and improve trust between young people and the police.
%O © 2022 by SAGE Publication. This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
%I SAGE Publications
%L discovery10148313
%J Crime & Delinquency
%P 943-970
%D 2023
%A Artemis Skarlatidou
%A Ludwig Lina
%A Solymosi Reka
%A Bradford Ben
%V 69
%T Understanding Knife Crime and Trust in Police with Young People in East London
%N 5