This *really* annoys me...

[MBManInKen]

Lout who has committed 15 different types of crime by age of 18 spared jail

I read this story in the papers today. Makes me really angry.

Perhaps this type should be sent to Afghanistan. That would be a better re-education than yet another community order.

 

[Gucci]

He'll come unstuck down the line. His life isn't exactly a fairytale anyway - he'll either be in prison sometime in the future or killed if he continues down the wrong path. Drugs, violence and gang culture will see to that. This is no consequence or comfort to his victims, but a sad story either way.

 

[SEM]

I think the reply's in the Argus Say it all

 

[carnut]

He'll come unstuck down the line. His life isn't exactly a fairytale anyway - he'll either be in prison sometime in the future or killed if he continues down the wrong path. Drugs, violence and gang culture will see to that. This is no consequence or comfort to his victims, but a sad story either way.

Ageed!! There is a train of thought that proposes the "Darwin Theory"....society just needs to accelerate it ,not delay it.

"Dont confuse Justice with the Law..." .........We just have to protect the victims from people like this .......if only we can.

 

[MBManInKen]

We just have to protect the victims from people like this .......if only we can.

I don't know what that judge was thinking .

 

[television]

And all of this could be waiting around the corner for us all and with 20 million more people over the next 20 years thing will get better

 

[mark.t]

http://www.wmin.ac.uk/page-3103 ...


the question is, for them or us

 

[purplegoddess]

I don't know what that judge was thinking .

he obviously wasnt

 

[Natalie]

And this lad is capable of pro-creating - frightening.

 

[Gucci]

And this lad is capable of pro-creating - frightening.

Although he probably needed a reminder of how to do that

 

[recycled]

I don't know what that judge was thinking .

I know. he has not committed any council tax offences or driving without road tax on his own car.

 

[RoseTattoo]

We all know the problem and it is a serious problem. We are all intimidated and dismayed by people such as this and it is growing rather than diminishing.
It is a changing society and the respect of old, is no longer here.
Such people as this have had no life lessons involving responsibility and accountability and he has probably come from a single parent home. Certainly it seems he is in the process of setting up at least one single parent family.
One person referred to sending him to Afghanistan but we no longer have a conscripted army which was one way of sorting out some of these people and teaching them about the rewards of discipline and responsibility.
We can lock him away but this is extremely expensive and robs us of one potentially valuable worker and it does nothing to solve the wider problem.
So what practically can we do to turn this situation around? I think everybody is grappling for a solution, politicians included, so what really and practically can be done? Wisdom and thought appreciated over Vlad the Imapler type solutions which are just not going to fly.