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YEF launches guidance and urges forces to adopt focused deterrence approach that has cut crime by a third

SUBSCRIBE 25th March 2025Sarah Gibbons, Contributing Editor, Policing Insight
The Youth Endowment Fund (YEF) has launched new guidance on how forces and violence reduction units can adopt and implement the multi-agency focused deterrence (FD) approach to tackle serious violence, which international research shows has cut crime by an average 33%; the YEF’s Dr Stevie-Jade Hardy spoke to Policing Insight’s Sarah Gibbons about how FD works, the guidance and ‘on the ground’ support offered by the YEF, and ongoing evaluations of the scheme in the UK.

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