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Originally Posted by Escapee
I do go along with the idea of making young offenders work to the benefit of the community. I see no reason why they shouldn't wear uniforms like mentioned in the article, it would possibly bring shame on a percentage who wouldn't want to be in that situation again.
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Whilst I agree with making young offenders "work off" their crimes because that has been shown to have a better rehabilitative effect, I do not agree with this idea of uniforms (especially in bright colours)
Humiliating someone is *never* a good idea to try to get them to behave in a certain way and I also feel that this is more likely to be used as a "look, we're doing something" gimmick by the government because they can have photo opportunities of Ministers standing next to prisoners saying "See, we're tough on crime" even though there's no proof from America (where they use such schemes) that there's actually any positive rehabilitative benefit from it.
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Originally Posted by Paul
I have (and no doubt will keep having to) blamed lazy and ignorant parenting for a lot of the problems people are facing from abusive kids these days. Not all kids are bad because not all kids have parents that allow them to go further and further off the rails.
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This is a little off topic, but on a side note, although I'm usually against "reality TV" style programmes (because they're very often simply "low rent TV"), I do think that the influx of programmes like "House of tiny tearaways", "Supernanny" (or whaever they're called!) etc are actually a good thing
Hopefully at least *some* of the people who watch them will pick up some tips and bring their children up better than they may have done otherwise since there's no real "how to bring up kids" information easily available.
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Originally Posted by Shaun
I've said for a long time those at our local jail could be used to sort through our recycling rather than pay someone to do it. Would that be demeaning enough for everyone?  |
So you want a bunch of *criminals* to be searching through paperwork that people may have thrown away that could contain bank account, credit card or other sensitive information...???
