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

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 ...  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 ...  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. ...  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 ...  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 ...  Read the complete review

***I have slightly changed my opinion on this after two years, so i'm re-writing it. Unfortunately I don't have anywhere to save it as a document so I will have to save it here unfinished. gareth 17/02******* If you have children, then i think most will agree your life should be devoted to them. Bad parenting ...  Read the complete review

No words of mine can possible express the horror for all involved in little Jamies short life and horrific death. I can only hope and pray that he is in heaven as I am sure he is. I cannot empathise - the nearest I came was when I believed for 5 mins approx that my eldest daughter aged two at the time was dead. My world stopped.My ...  Read the complete review

This op is difficult to write without being deemed a racist under dooyoo rules. The problem is that recent crime surveys have highlighted the uncomfortable truth that a percentage of serious youth crime is being committed by certain groups.19% of the ballooning prison population is black or Asian when they account for only three and a ...  Read the complete review

As a victim of crime(many times),i think a marvelous idea would be bring back conscription.For 16/25 year olds. I have been watching the 50`s Lad`s Army,programme on itv,and its marvelous.The discipline would do them good,and they`d be too knackered to rob,burn our cars,homes, or kill,and rob old ladies,or do the other ...  Read the complete review

During my late teens I went off the rails a little, to say the least, and landed up in various Young Offenders Institutions and over the months and years which were spent in and out of these places I saw very little that I would class as a deterent! Other than the antisocial behaviour of other inmates and sometimes brutal treatment from ...  Read the complete review

Currently we have a situation in which young people can be deemed too young to be responsible for their own actions, and no one else is deemed to be legally responsible for them. Juveniles seldom go to court, nothing is done to make parents take responsibility and youth crime is high. Solutions? Well, I've a few thoughts..... ...  Read the complete review

How many times have you seen a bunch of youths causing trouble?? Or walked down the street and received abuse from some nastily looking teenagers??? Well since I went to a public school I have had to live with it. I think the image to look 'ard in front of his mates and cause trouble is something today?s society can do without. ...  Read the complete review

Should we sympathise with these children who are obviously gone hay wire! To say a child of 10yrs does not know what is right from wrong is complete rubbish! A child at that age knows that hitting or injuring another is wrong but if there is no one to instill this into the child at an early age, the child effectively ...  Read the complete review

In this country criminal liability begins at the age of ten. In theory a nine year old could commit mass murder and would be touchable with regards the law. If two 'only just' ten-year-old boys can commit such an atrocity who's to say a nine year old won't in the future? Laws need to change to be prepared for ...  Read the complete review

It is with great sadness that I write this particular review. It is prompted due to some news that was relayed yesterday (Sunday) via my local radio station, and I keep asking myself “ Why, why was this allowed to happen?” To cut a long story short, yesterday in my home town of Liverpool, two 14 year old boys were ...  Read the complete review

I am a labour sceptic but WELL DONE to the man who came up with banging up mobile phone thiefs! Because as we all know stealing mobile phones is so fucking low its immeasurable, so lets bang the little 15,16,17,18,19 year old pieces of crap that do it in a proper prison, like what we are finally doing. I dont have ...  Read the complete review

Crime - it’s something that we’ve all been affected by at some point in our lives, whether it’s happened to us, or just to our neighbour. What’s more is that most of the crime we’ve probably encountered has been carried out by youths – graffiti, mugging, theft, vandalism, even the worst crimes of rape ...  Read the complete review

As foolish daffodils up periscope in search of an early spring, the equally red faced humble pie swallowers at black Britain?s influential newspaper ?The Voice? have had to do a U-turn on stop and search. The sheepish professionals have asked their police to protect them form the surge of street robbery and violence in ...  Read the complete review

Before we can begin to set laws for young offenders we need to examine what “young” means. It seems, at this time, that we have to accept wrong doings, often of horrific proportions, from so called “young offenders” because someone says they are too young to be held accountable. In my experience children ...  Read the complete review

Walking the streets for twenty years we have noticed in the London police force that street crime and shoplifting has been on the up every year. This means there are more and more people not afraid to commit crimes like this with less and less officers out there to knick them. Mobile phone theft stats have been a problem since ...  Read the complete review