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Why are kids carrying knives?

With youth violence and knife crime on the rise, Martin Geissler and Laura Miller ask: how violent are the lives of our children?

Three teenagers have died due to knife crime in Scotland in a year, while police and politicians are concerned about a rise in violence in and around schools.

We ask Scotland’s former violence reduction tzar, Karyn McClusky (pictured), how bad the problem is.

And Martin tells Laura a tale of meeting a young explorer in war-torn Baghdad.

Scotcast is the BBC’s Scottish news podcast, with Martin Geissler, Laura Miller and Natalie Higgins.

Get in touch with us by emailing scotcast@bbc.co.uk

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