"If you're ill, it's no good putting a sticking plaster on it. You've got to get to the bottom of the illness.
"Let's try and understand what's gone wrong in these children's lives and we'll find it's about family breakdown, it's about drugs, it's about alcohol abuse, often it's young people who are brought up in care when they should be in loving homes.
"Let's now deal with those problems. That doesn't mean at the same we can't be tough when a crime is committed."
The occasional rantings of an aging liberal Christian on his faith, his church (Episcopal), politics, the criminal justice system and other momentary indulgences.
Monday, July 10, 2006
More Love Reduces Youth Crime.
British Tory politician, David Cameron, boldly suggests more love directed toward the youth can do a lot to reduce crime, more than exclusively focusing on punishment.
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