After the riots & looting ...

Quassia | 11:51 Thu 11th Aug 2011 | ChatterBank

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Do you think this scheme could be used to help educate the rioters & looters? http://www.thetelegra...behind/9003580.print/

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steg

public flogging of the looters would be a good scheme

Quassia

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Hi steg,
we can't just throw fines/ sentences at them surely? Shouldn't we also try and educate them on the consequences of their actions? Let them see the personal traumas the mugging vicim has suffered. Let us show them the personal loss the small businesses are suffering. Let them see what our emergency services have had to cope with & the overall knock on affect to our communities!

steg

hi Quassia
you can let them see whatever, the problem is, they don't care.

Quassia

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May be, may be not steg. Would it not be worth it to try & educate those we can get through to? Would it not be a positive thing if there was eventually a knock on affect after ?

steg

there may be hope for a few but for the majority they have tasted the buzz you get, they will (imo) want more

Quassia

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So we'll put them in the stocks and throw tomatoes at them steg ! ;0)
I think it's got to be worth trying this scheme on them. http://www.southyorks...ed_object.asp?id=3361

chelle7272

Quassia, we have used restorative justice where I work following vandalism by local young people. They met with people affected and with our Trustees and did some work in the gardens to 'give something back'. It did in fact work well, one of the young lads stayed on doing gardeing in his own time for a while.

I've read some reports of people showing remorse about what they did in the riots, the majority probably don't care, but some it appears may have just got caught up in the madness of the moment and do regret it.

Quassia

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chelle,
thank you, really interesting to hear from someone who's actually been involved in the scheme! I feel it is worthwhile in the long run. As you say, people get caught up in it & follow others actions. There will be some it's too late to have an affect on, but for others this could make them think and have a knock on affect x

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Quassia

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Hi bill,
I'm not naive enough to think it would work for all! It's more than likely a lot of the yobs who ran riot on our streets are drink & drug dependant .. a major problem all on it's own ... and may be there's no hope there, I don't know? The ones I was thinking could be helped, were the young impressionable kids left to their own devices and who look up to these hoodlums.

sandyRoe

billandhiscat,
I knew someone who was birched as a young man. At the first stroke he soiled himself. Thought he didn't exactly put it in those words.
He was a petty criminal and jailbird with a 40 year plus history of criminality.
Corporal punishment doesn't work.

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askyourgran

I think I love you billandhiscat. But even in a wonderful PC free world this would never happen. It would have the suits in Brussels and our collective po-faced MPs reaching for the bottle. Maybe if Saddam were still alive!!!! Nice thought anyway.