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

Young Offenders in general, the thieves and destructors of property: Children learn from the adults they are surrounded by. They learn by example. If you don't live a law abiding life, then your children will probably grow up to some extent the same. If a child is hit at home, even as a toddler he's learned that that's how you ...  Read the complete review

The bulger case has risen its head again as the 2 killers reach maturity and become men. The powers that be in the reform school and the government say that these two lads have now become "model inmates" and everyone is impressed with the progress they have made. This may be true, but how must the parents of James Bulger be ...  Read the complete review

In my Opinion a Life sentance is a life sentance and the two boys who killed jamie should be kept locked away for life. i don't care if anyone says that they were children when they did it. Everyone knows for as long as you can remember that killing is bad and that you go to prison if you do. So why after serving around 10 ...  Read the complete review

A year after the horrific murder of James Bulger, a five year old girl was beaten senseless and left in the snow to freeze to death..Her two killers were just six years old..And had been playmates of their victim.. This happened in a small Town in Norway that had never seen the murder of child before..And they way this vile act was handled by ...  Read the complete review

I have the misfortune of living in an unpleasant part of Liverpool where youth crime is rife. Quite simply, the area is not safe from teenage yobs (and younger!) who infest the streets. Some examples - due to the amount of off-licences and stores that sell booze, kids DEMAND that you go into them to buy it for them (manners!). Yound ...  Read the complete review

Shoot them in the head, and bury them in a unmarked grave. Sorry, I just had visions of that sentence appearing on the front page of Dooyou and driving everyone into a frenzy, either because you agree or you don't. And that's kind of the problem. If I was left alone in a room with John Venables and Robert Thomson, and I could ...  Read the complete review

I wholeheartedly disagree with the Lord Chief Justice's decision on letting Venables and Thompson go, however, when they are let out, they will be be subjected to revenge attacks wherever they go and are recognised. Even look-a-likes of them will suffer. With the age they were when they killed poor Jamie, at 18 now, they should know what ...  Read the complete review

It seems incomprehensible when children kill,murder,inflict violence, act sadistically - how can they do this? we ask 'they are ONLY CHILDREN' our mental sets are such that we cannot accept the facts when children commit henious crimes, and the legal system itself offers no clearly defined punishments for child crime. The ...  Read the complete review

I doubt very much that the boys which killed jamie will be allowed out of prision. If they do, they will not return to the homes they once lived in. They will be given new names and moved somewhere so no one can get to them. Face it, if you were walking down the street would you recognise them?. The last photo you have seen of the boys, they were ...  Read the complete review

No doubt this category was inspired by the recent revelations that the the killers of Jamie Bulger could be released from incarceration after serving only 8 years for his murder. No doubt our national press will again feed on our fears and enhance public haterd towards the perpetrators of this crime...without offering any solutions as to what ...  Read the complete review

How the law and legal system should balance its various duties is something that regularly taxes some of the finest minds in the country - and this is never more true than when deciding how to deal with young offenders. The Jamie Bulger case and the recent legal rulings have thrown the spotlight back on the best way to deal with young ...  Read the complete review

It's very frustrating to live in a society that does not consider the under 14s to be able to consciously choose to do wrong and thus never charge them for minor crimes. What miraculous change happens the night of a youth's fourteenth birthday, or for that matter, his or her eighteenth? But allowing children to repeatedly vandalize and ...  Read the complete review

Tough luck? Is that what we think if we know someone has a child who chooses to take the wrong road? I don't envy any parent who has to confront the issue of having a child who is out of control. I had a friend who has had many problems with her sons growing up. So far as I know they haven't committed murder, they certainly have ...  Read the complete review

I have just read the opinions regarding the Jamie Bulgar case,and i am feeling one hundred times, more angered than i was at the time the murder occured. I cant believe some people can say that we musnt let our emotions sway are opinion.well i am !!! I hope, i really do hope than if these vile creatures are let out soon that ...  Read the complete review

I will start this off with the Jamie Bulger case. I still remember the feeling of sheer horror I felt when the poor little soul Jamie Bulger was tortured and ,consequently, died an horrific death at the hands of evil murderers.Irrespective of age,their chosen actions were evil and ,so it seems, very much pre-meditated, this case,as you ...  Read the complete review

What happened to little Jamie Bulger was totally horrendous. The grief felt by his family and friends, and indeed the whole nation, is immeasurable. As a society we need to do everything in our power to ensure that nothing like it ever happens again. But the most important thing is that when thinking of issues such as this we must detach ourselves ...  Read the complete review

It is impossible to prescribe one size fits all solutions to the problems of youth crime. I used to be a very lock 'em style supporter, and for those who seriuosly err, even as children I think prison is still appropriate. However for petty robbery or minor theft (if it can ever really be seen as minor) I would instigate a new nationwide scheme ...  Read the complete review

DO NOT READ THIS if you are easily offended. Please also note that this opinion was written some time ago in a different catogory and was moved to this one by dooyoo. I like many other people was shocked by the murder of Jamie Bulger 10 years or so ago, it was shocking and disgusting how two youngsters could entice a young boy ...  Read the complete review

Last night the nation learned of the 'release date' for the two boys who murdered Jamie Bulger. I, for one, am disgusted. Any parent or any person that has ever been around a 10 year old will know that they know 'RIGHT FROM WRONG'. What they did to that little 3 year old was no 'accident' was no 'play that got ...  Read the complete review