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

I don't hold with the opinion that there is such a thing as 'bad child'. Evil through & through. The environment may be bad, the environment & a combination of factors may be evil. NOT the child. After all that is what we are dealing with here is children. I think the problem is far more intrinsic than this ...  Read the complete review

I think England is going to go down the pan unless the government do something about young offenders. From what I can see, young offenders get away with anything. The police are powerless so we cannot blame them. So its all down to the government. I really don't know why the government are not doing anything about the issue. ...  Read the complete review

I have studied law for the past 5 years and nothing I have learnt has equipped me to deal with this type of problem. I could use a cynical view and judge an offending youth as unlikely to be rehabilitated into society successfully. Or I could be optimistic and take the stance that with better socialisation in a secured environment they ...  Read the complete review

I have an idea... I have read some other opinions on this subject and think that they all have some valid points, mainly the fact that Young Offender's cannot be very easily reintroduced into society. My personal opinion is that unless you keep rehabilitating young offenders every single day there is no point in keeping ...  Read the complete review

This is a really tough one. Young offenders?the term alone has a chilling feel. Before you can ask what to do with them you have to question why they offend in the first place. To offend the child must be unhappy, or happy through offending which boils down to being unhappy with the norm. Why might they be unhappy? ...  Read the complete review

Yes it is an epidemic! Events occuring in the UK, are happening in the US! Certain children that were under-age when they committed a heinous crime, will soon be released. In UK it is the story mentioned in the caption, where an older boy beat a child to death. In the US, it`s those younger children in the school shootings in Arkansas! ...  Read the complete review

Prevention is better than cure. Most people agree with this when applied to medicine but seem all too quick to forget that this too can be true of children and young offenders. What must be looked at – as opposed the punishment and ‘justice’ to be inflicted upon a young offender – is why they were ...  Read the complete review

Young offenders should be prosecuted exactly the same as the senior criminals. In my opinion, if a young offender is old enough to know what they are doing when they commit a crime, then they are old enough to stand in front of a judge and jury at a trial. The civilisation of Britain is being ruined because more and more people turn ...  Read the complete review

In todays society the amount of young offenders is gradually increasing, and the severity of their crimes is also growing. This is clearly a problem and has been brought about by many varying reasons. Firstly there home lives, and the treatment some receive from their parents. The increasing wealth of the country is another factor. Why ...  Read the complete review

Why do young kids offend these days? It seems to me from watching old movies, newsreel and more recently the 1940's house, that a major influence on kids these days has to be the affect of material wealth that has swept through society in the last 30/40 years. In effect the pressure from the outside is too strong for less ...  Read the complete review

This particular topic is one that is spoken about quite often. You often hear people in the street discussing it and their opinions range from throwing them in prison to teaching them a skill so they can make a professional of themselves rather than them living a life of crime. Myself I think that if they (the Government) really ...  Read the complete review

Young offenders are still offenders. Crimes should not be tolerated, no matter what age. I see the ghastly pictures of that poor, innocent toddler Jamie Bulger amd then I see his killers going to be released soon. This is what I call an injustice. I don’t care how old they were, there was no need for that. Imagine if your ...  Read the complete review

Young offenders do not have a common background. The only similarity is that they have committed an offence and that they are young. The fact that they are young lends it self well to the possibility of intervention - intervention for change and improvement. At present it is perfectly possible to enter a youth detention ...  Read the complete review

With the release of this weeks national crime figures you can see how easy it is for a government facing an election to manipulate them to show erroneous drops to keep the fear of crime at bay.Which is ironically the only way it will ever fall. If you look at some of the stats in your local paper that your force are claiming to have ...  Read the complete review

No matter how heinous the crime or how venomous the child's attitude, he is still just a child. Children do not know that it is wrong to take something that belongs to someone else. They do not know that it is wrong to tease others. It is only when parents or adults interven to correct and instruct children that they learn the ...  Read the complete review

Don't get me wrong, I don't condone the actions of Jamie Bulger's killers, but over the issue of their identities being withheld from the public, I think that is the right decision. With a case such as this emotions needless to say run high throughout the country and by publicising their identities, you are justing ...  Read the complete review

In light of the recent revelations regarding the attempt to strangle another "inmate" by one of the Jamie Bulger child killers (Thompson), I have bitten my tongue for many days regarding this controversial topic of debate, but as I listened to the news less than 5 minutes ago I truly felt my blood begin to boil. I have ...  Read the complete review

I think that offences committed by anyone regardless of age should be given the same penalties, when I say regardless of age I mean those who are of an age to know whats acceptable or not. I think that this country is far too soft on young offenders and we should introduce a "strike " system whereby anyone who offends ...  Read the complete review

Firstly I will state that I feel nothing but sympathy for the relatives of James Bulger. Their grief and anger at the murderers of their son is understandable and naturally they want the two boys who took their sons life to be locked up and never released. However, although it is tragic that these events happened, I believe there are a ...  Read the complete review

I really have had enough of the sun reader mentality that pervades every newspaper story, every television programme, every 'rational discussion' concerning the release of Thompson and Venables. Children, 10-year-old children, do not have the same perceptions as rational adults, and even some adults also have legal ...  Read the complete review