Nottingham-raised Jacob Dunne struggled in school, and fell into gang culture, selling drugs and fighting. In 2011, he inadvertently killed a young man in a fight, leading to a prison sentence.
Adetola Adeogun learnt the hard way that you can't take the law into your own hands. She saw red when a stranger she'd allowed to stay in her flat refused to leave using pepper spray while trying to force her way back into her property.
Mark Bracewell grew up surrounded by gang crime. He witnessed his first murder at 11 and later served time for armed robbery. In 2016, he intervened in a fight, resulting in a life-threatening stab-wound that cost him his left eye.
Taury Meade shares his story with his dad, Raphael. Taury lost four friends to stabbings and nearly went to jail himself. He credits his father and their carpentry work for his turnaround, believing it saved him from a grim fate.