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The question then is: will respect orders stop that trend? Possibly—probably not—but, if we can bring in the 14 to 18 year-olds as well, and if by that intervention we save just one other child from being viciously stabbed to death by other children, I submit that it will have been worth it. So let us at least try, while recognising that, in my opinion, we need a whole new regime for the terrible rise in child violence and crime, starting at an increasingly younger age every year.