Cut Short
- Author Ciaran Thapar
- Narrator Anthony Welsh
- Publisher Penguin Books Ltd
- Publish Date 1 January 1970
- Run Time 10 hours and 57 minutes
- Format Audio
- Genre Age groups: adolescents, Biography and non-fiction prose, Causes and prevention of crime, Poverty and precarity, Reportage, journalism or collected columns, Society and Social Sciences, Street crime, True stories: general, Urban communities, Violence and abuse in society.
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'Lays down a transformative path to peace' David Lammy MP
'A devastating and beautifully-drawn tribute to the young boys that the media turns into statistics of knife crime' Candice Carty-Williams
'I came away from this book enraged, enlightened and with a sense of urgency to do something' Annie Mac
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Demetri wants to study criminology at university to understand why people around him carry knives.
Jhemar is determined to advocate for his community following the murder of a loved one.
Carl's exclusion leaves him vulnerable to the sinister school-to-prison pipeline, but he is resolute to defy expectations.
Tony, the tireless manager of a community centre, is fighting not only for the lives of local young people, but to keep the centre's doors open.
Drawing on the latest research and interviews with experts, this refreshingly nuanced and beautifully written book interweaves the stories of a cast of characters at the sharp end of Britain's serious youth violence epidemic, with chapters on subjects such as social media, gentrification and criminal justice.
Showing how we are all connected to this tragedy, Cut Short is a gripping, urgent, sympathetic and often painful portrait of a society fracturing along lines of race, class and postcode. It is a blueprint for positive change, and a book we desperately need.
© Ciaran Thapar 2021 (P) Penguin Audio 2021
Critics Review
A very inspiring and important piece of work and I’d encourage people to buy it, to read it and to act on it
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