Young Offenders - What Should The Law Do With Them? Reviews

Young offenders. Anti social behaviour. What has happened to the youth of our time? Vandalism, theft, intimidation, drunken behaviour, fighting and even murdering, no wonder young people are seen negatively! There always seems to be a new crime committed by young people on the front of a newspaper, and it's at a point where nobody is ...  Read the complete review

This is a really difficult question and I don't think that there is a straight forward answer to this. I think that Young Offenders's get to commit crime of a substancial level before they are properly punished for it. They get a couple of smacks on the hand then they have to attend a few appointments with youth offending workers - ...  Read the complete review

There are lots of conflicting opinions about how to handle the problems of youth crime and young offenders, for me one of the key range of initiatives are those put in place to prevent young people offending in the first place, the sad thing is that there is no one initiative alone that can bring this about rather a range of measures are ...  Read the complete review

If you read a newspaper lie the Daily Mail or the Sun then you could well believe that the streets of any town or city in the UK are over run with marauding gangs of youths robbing people, drunkenly fighting and causing vandalism, making some streets after dark no go areas for law abiding people. The reality is that this picture has ...  Read the complete review

For many years now, but more recently, young offenders has become a hot topic, not only on the news, but in our own households, and I often find myself having heated discussions with my wife about it. My argument is that things cant be getting any better, as you are always hearing on the news about murders occuring, usually in places like London, ...  Read the complete review

I think that the topic of young offenders is a difficult one to know how to tackle for the best. It seems that the problem is increasing, especially in large cities. How has this happened? I am lucky enough to live on the Isle of Wight, where we do get our share of young offenders, but no where near as bad as places like London or Manchester. It ...  Read the complete review

A lot of these young offenders, I believe are bored or have been brought up badly or in bad environments. Locking kids up isnt going to make them stop, its like a self-fullfilling prophesy if you treat them like a criminal they will act like one. Maybe they do all need to be in a 'safer' place. Where they cant hurt others but can be in ...  Read the complete review

Young Offenders - What Should The Law Do With Them? I just do not know, but it needs to start looking at the root of the problem also. Why have we such a problem in the UK?? I know a lot of people say....I blame the parents.... and I must admit I sort of feel the same, but more than that... I blame the local communities too ...  Read the complete review

As a mother myself in my thirties, I look at people of my parents generation and think they must be horrified to see what is happening with some of our yonger generation today. It astounds me that these delinquents are so stupid and unintelligent that they can do nothing more productive with their lives than cause trouble for other people, ...  Read the complete review

Teenagers and young people in general are getting a very bad rep at the moment. Everytime i switch on the news or open a newspaper there is yet another story of youth crime and i feel very saddened by it. When we think about young offenders many of us will get the image of a poverty stricken family living on a council estate surrounded ...  Read the complete review

People are very narrowing minded about young offenders. The words "I blame the parents" is always mentioned when asked about this subject. Yes often parents don't bring their children up in a responsible way so they go off the rails. But also there are other causes for young people terrorising others for their own pleasure. ...  Read the complete review

There have been millions of words spent attempting to explain why certain individuals habitually offend, and while we've been busy analysing it, the problem has steadily grown worse, particularly amongst young offenders. The bleeding heart brigade with their newly acquired degree in Sociology will tell you it's the fault of Society. ...  Read the complete review

Young offenders, what should we do with them? Well, I have several views surrounding prisons etc. My first is get the militray to run HM prisons. Just take a look at the number of soldiers who get sent to colcehster military prison who reoffend. It is far less than civialians. I truly belive the army should run the ...  Read the complete review

It’s hard not to have an opinion about what to do with young offenders, every now and then something shocking comes into the news and the crime has been committed by youngsters. It’s all to easy to blame the parents, the places where they live, the wrong crowd or any other scape goat that comes to mind. When really as a society we should be ...  Read the complete review

When I moved onto a council estate I was completely shocked to see children as young as five committing crimes such as smashing windows and vandalism. Shocking more was to see an eight-year-old youth driving around the streets on a stolen motorbike with his parents watching and cheering him on. Makes you wonder what drives these kids to crime in ...  Read the complete review

In today's society it is always publicised how young people are getting worse. Maybe it is true, they are getting worse, but has anyone thought about why? More and more young people are appearing in court for offences, often drug, theft, vandalism or assault related offences too, and how are they punished? A juvenile detention centre. To be ...  Read the complete review

First thing I need to do for this piece is to establish something- there was no such thing as the "good old days". They never existed. Only forty years ago racist violence, homophobia and brutal child abuse were widespread. In some cases it still happens today but back then it was accepted, tolerated and encouraged. Human beings have ...  Read the complete review

(I know this opinion is slightly off-topic, but I have already written about bullying and thought this was the closest category I could find.) I hadn’t been planning to write this opinion, but after reading AmandaJean’s one over on Ciao about bullying, I felt I had something to say that might be of use to people. Plus I hate ...  Read the complete review

Everyone seems quick to remind us that, regardless of a persons crime or motive or even knowledge of their actions, if they are under a certain age they are children, therefore they cannot be responsible for the crime! In my opinion if you are fully aware and in control of your actions, you are in turn responsible for them, age regardless! If ...  Read the complete review

I was reading what this topic is all about and i saw that it stated the fact about Jamie Bulger's killers. Well those guys are evil - no question. What they did was horrendous and that sort of behaviour should be severely punished (which in my opinion wasn't but then again many quilty persons don't get what they deserve). And now with ...  Read the complete review