We've all seen them shambling in and around the sprawling urban streets of 21st century British cities; Shaven heads, scowling faces, one hand down the front of their never washed tracksuit "leisurewear", whilst the other hand struggles to control the snarling "staffie" dog with the ridiculous obligatory medal around it's neck....and this is just the girls. Yes, readers you are looking at one of the UK underclasses' finest.
In my opinion they are the creation of this and previous generation's fatuous neglect of all that is virtuous and good. A Frankenstein's monster unleashed on the civilised society that works around them. There is no single person, or even group of people, to blame for their rise. Do we blame the sweeping social revolution of the 1960s? The selfish, greed driven Thatcher years of the 1980s, or a symptom of the many recessions to occur in most decades since the Second World War ? I believe all these factors have played a part. So, what do we do with them ?
I believe that despite the liberal do-gooders belief that no one is beyond rehabilitation, there is a size-able percentage who are beyond saving and can only be, at best, controlled. The "shameless" society needs to learn what shame is.Cut the benefits for those who clearly do not want to work.Get tougher on crime. Not longer prison sentences, this simply doesn't work. The more low level crime can be punished by shaming the offenders.Bring back modern day stocks and humiliate them. Set them up in town and city centre squares. Read out their offences to the general public. Introduce them time and again to their victims (with the victim's permission). Show them the stocks. Another offence and they go in. This would surely be a greater deterrent than 14 days in prison.
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