Youth offenders should take a hike
Instead of throwing them into prison, sending young offenders on a long walk would help teach them respect and self-worth
You don't have to be a devout reader of the Daily Mail to have concerns that there really is a problem with young people behaving badly. Depending on your point of view – whether right-on liberal, or reactionary conservative – the reasons for violent crime and anti-social behaviour are blamed on Thatcherism and a culture of greed, on the permissive society of the 1960s, or on rap and gangsta music.
However, arguing about the origins of gang culture, knife crime and a decline in respect for others may be fascinating debates in themselves, but are as irrelevant as scoring philosophical points about the number of angels who can dance on the head of a pin.
If the hike we used to go on in Kirklevington Grange resettlement prison is anything to go by, then this suggestion would appear to me to have merit.
A mixture of law, politics, autobiography and humour. Once described as "The Devilish Advocate" (Guardian), I do have the ability to provoke a response. Sometimes it comes from someone who uses a thought process, and sometimes from jerks usually associated with the knee.
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