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Originally Posted by Escapee
I do agree with you that 90% are not thugs, bullies, criminals or vandals....However the 10% that are represent quite a large number, I am sure someone will be able to quote figures for school leavers. We must also remember that many of these young offenders re-offend often on much larger scales of crime, and the 10% figure is a rolling figure being added to every year.
I guess I am really saying that young offenders dont just have a timeclock that stops them from being bad, they can if not corrected progress to more serious crimes and often do, after honing their skills with other offenders.
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Yes but by concentrating on the bad eggs we tend to ignore the better behaved.If we are going to have the stick effect for offenders perhaps we need the carrot for the 90% that deserve some sort of reward for being well behaved instead of being tarred with the same brush as the yobs.To keep banging on about yob culture is to give the nicer teens the idea that no one cares about them and to give so much of the public a fear of any group of teens who just happen to be going about their lawful business.
