Youth Crime

@sue2 Said

Still prefer my option, send them to another country. Problem solved

@sister_of_mercy Said
moving them out of one town and into another will not stop the problem, just make it someone else's business to sort out.

@angelcake Said

It depends what the problem is, honestly it does work for certain people in certain situations, e.g. sex workers, especially street workers. In Southampton there's the working women's project which has been set up to help the sex workers in Southampton either stay safe/get out of working on the streets or whatever and part of what they offer is a chance to relocate from Southampton to somewhere like Fareham/Eastleigh, smaller towns on the outskirts of Southampton but they're far enough away that they aren't going to know the places to work or the people around them.

It sounds bizarre but really something as simple as moving 20 minutes down the road can stop certain crimes.

@sue2 Said

More than ?8m will be spent over the next two years in a bid to reduce youth re- offending in England & Wales the government has announced.

Justice minister Claire Ward said the money will be spent on resettlement programmes for young offenders when they leave prison.

Ms ward said breaking the cycle of offending was the key to helping young people and creating safer communities.

A resettlement programme ?? Does that mean we are exporting them to another country

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