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

Jon Venables and Robert Thompson were only ten years old when they abducted James Bulger from a shopping centre in Bootle, Merseyside where he was out shopping with his mother on February 12th 1993. A month from his third birthday, James was seen trustingly taking the hand of one of these boys, some may say animals, on Close Circuit Television. ...  Read the complete review

I have looked at the ways children are punished for crimes and general bad behaviour. I have decided to think of punishments that I would not have liked to have been given to myself for various misdeeds. Parental punishment….. For minor offences not an exhaustive list but by minor offences I take that as such things as shop ...  Read the complete review

This opinion follows on from my opinion about the Criminal Justice System. Youth Offenders are vast in number; many of them are repeat offenders. After they have been through the Courts 3 times they are called PYOs (Persistent Young Offenders). At the moment the procedure for youth offenders is something akin to this: They will ...  Read the complete review

Many years ago I married into a family which to say the least had suffered more than its fair share of problems. I married the second child, she was the eldest daughter and the events I am going to relate respond directly to her elder sisters boys. When I married my then wife she had two nephews aged two and seven. The eldest of the boys was ...  Read the complete review

Young offenders are a problem that cannot be resolved. Taking them to Shopping centres and football matches (an opportunity many law abiding youngsters don't get!) is disgraceful. I would vote for any party that would vow to put in centres of severe punishment for young offenders. Rehabilitation is not the key, breaking their very soul is. ...  Read the complete review

In todays society the hardened criminal is no longer an adult who was led astray when they were younger,It is nothing but children themselves, so where did it start to go wrong? Have we as adults sat back and let the children of today just get on with it,Or is the way that we have to bring up our children, because todays society says we have ...  Read the complete review

I am in two minds about the Jamie Bulger killers issue. On the one hand I really feel for Jamie's parents and I think what these two boys did was indeed a terrible thing. These two murderers have been given the best education that money can buy and trips and days out to Manchester United and Alton Towers etc. By giving them new ...  Read the complete review

Ok this is going to be a very serious opinion, for a serious matter. As far as the case of the Jamie Bulger killers is concerned, I think there is obviously now a situation in which not everyone can possibly emerge satisfied. No degree of punishment, I am sure, would be enough for Jamie’s parents, and you really must look at this from ...  Read the complete review

What happens when the boy next door becomes a cold-blooded killer? From heartbroken adolescents to bullied children, kids from broken homes to seemingly well-adjusted children, unexpected juvenile violence can happen any place, any time. And what do we do with these young offenders?The law protects them, saying that they are to young to ...  Read the complete review

I know a young boy lets call him x and he is now 15. He has just come out of a rehabiltaion unit which he was in for over a year, he has now gone back to his old ways, he knows what he is doing is wrong and I think he should be punished for it, the children get treated brilliantly in these units and dont want for nothing it is no wonder they ...  Read the complete review

Well, those animals are out. Not of prison, but out of what can only be described as a boarding school. For the evil crime that those two ten year olds committed, they served eight years, in youth custody. The suffering of James(a baby remember), and his parents, family and friends, can not be imagined, unless you have been through it. ...  Read the complete review

It makes you wonder what the Parole board was thinking by releasing the two young men Jon Venables and Robert Thompson into a society that is not ready for them. Ever since James Bulger was brutally killed, our society has not accepted the fact that two children could inflict so much pain and torture to such a young child, yet here we are ...  Read the complete review

They were 10 years old, children themselves, should we give them a second chance, should we reform them and allow them to lead virtually normal lives ? They are now 18 years old. Is 8 years long enough for a lifetime ? They say they have changed, they say they repent, they say --------- An Eye for an Eye - how can ...  Read the complete review

The recent release of the two boys who killed James Bulger has re-opened the case in the eyes of the public. It is firstly very difficult to believe that two boys at the age of ten could do commit such a crime, and now it is difficult to believe that these boys' ten years later have been released back in to society. I believe that ...  Read the complete review

This may upset some people. If you don’t want to risk a potentially upsetting and graphic opinion, PLEASE DO NOT READ ANY FURTHER. I don’t wish to go into detail about the murder of Jamie Bulger, and the consequences up to the present situation of the release of the two perpetrators. Nor do I wish to particularly discuss the ...  Read the complete review

UPDATE: Demon, the internet service provider has successfully challenged the court's decisions to hold the media ultimately responsible for information given out on Jon Venables and Robert Thompson. They have claimed practical immunity from punishment should anyone publish details or pictures of the two since they have been released. ...  Read the complete review

Robert Thompson and Jon Venables are names that draw raw emotions from the people of this state. To many they are seen as inhuman, even sub-human. Vengeance is the only way to deal with these two boys (now adults of course) who so brutally killed a small child, James Bulger in Bootle in 1993. But now the parole board have decided that they have ...  Read the complete review

As far as I'm concerned Children who murder or break the law are no different from adults and should be treated identically. When I was growing up I saw kids bullying others and groups of youngsters hanging around parks intimidating others. The only way to teach them if their parents can't control them or instil morals in them is to give ...  Read the complete review

The recent release of Jon Venables & Robert Thompson, the killers pf James Bulger, has prompted extreme, often hysterical reactions on this site and throughout the country as a whole. Am I alone in feeling sickened by the lynch mob mentality which seems to have descended on Britain? I must first say that the crime was utterly horrific, ...  Read the complete review

I have been interested in all the opinions regarding James Bulgers killers being released, but has anyone thought about the fact that in the fullness of time these two monsters will be out and about looking for dates. Would all the "do gooders" who think that they should be given a second chance feel happy if their inocent daughters ...  Read the complete review