Table 1

Inclusion and exclusion criteria

InclusionExclusion
Studies focusing on children and young people 25 and underStudies focusing on a 25 and over population
Knife crime interventions and preventionsDomestic violence, intimate partner violence (IPV studies) or any titles relating to sexual violence
Knife carrying reduction programmes (interventions and preventions)Prison studies
Violence reduction models, including knife crime or knife carrying reductionViolence against teachers and school staff OR Health-Care workers
Grey literature of anti-knife crime services/programmesBooks and book chapters
Risk factors pertaining to knife crime and knife carrying, e.g. education, family, socio-economic status and mental healthStudies and interventions before 1990
Government reports and government funded organisation reportsOther literature that has not undergone peer review (e.g. news articles and dissertations)
Papers in English 
Youth justice studies 
Youth offending studies 
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