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Gang members have invariably grown up in broken, chaotic homes, often experiencing domestic violence they have truanted from school and many have been formally excluded and they live in neighbourhoods where worklessness, addiction and crime are rife.

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Iain Duncan Smith
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: January 1
British Politician
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Edinburgh
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