Yet again, the British Government is targeting gang culture.
Time to get on my soapbox I think.
Why do kids or adults for that matter join gangs?
Experience from the US points to their being many underlying causes for gang membership.

A sense of belonging, usually stemming from lack of parental control due to the breakdown of the traditional family […]

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“Lizzie Borden took an axe
and gave her mother forty whacks
When she saw what she had done,
She gave her father forty one.”
Evan Hunter talks about his true-crime book  about Lizzie

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There’s a video clip of the famous crime gangland leader on MSNBC.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/4327893/
 Update: the video has been moved  but it’s still a good crime news site.
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Don’t always assume the worst in your crime writing. There may be a perfectly “innocent” explanation…
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/23858783/
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http://video.news.sky.com/skynews/video/?&videoSourceID=1310900&flashURL=/feeds/skynews/latest/flash/goth_parmenter_p4356_270308.flv
Here is the link to a SKY News video. A 15 year old has been arrested for the killing of a girl in Lancashire. The girl, A Goth and her boyfriend were set upon in a lancashire park.
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This is the category where I will share tips on true crime writing.
The first thing I need to say about writing in the true crime genre is that the work needs to be acurate, free of bias, well researched and above all free from any accusations of libel.
Any true crime writing must start with research.
Besides […]

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Crime writing is big business.
Lots of people know that there is a novel inside them just bursting to get out but haven’t got a clue where to start.
Crime is one of the most satisfying things to write about because, well, there is so much of it about. If we haven’t been a victim of crime […]

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