https://www.theguardian.com/society/...iolent-attacks
Quote:
Poverty, exclusion, untreated mental health and behavioural difficulties, and wider social problems are contributing factors to the rise in violent crime among young people, being compounded by a dearth of resources to deal with them, says Sloley. Echoing a recent Guardian report, he stresses that cuts to the police, youth services and other vital safety nets have had a devastating impact on large numbers of young people. Young people need “a safe place to go”, like a youth centre, he explains, if they are to have a genuine chance of avoiding street violence or knife culture. “That’s what we have to understand. Even if the world is going crazy outside and [people] are dying, that building, or that worker, is your only moment of feeling safe.”
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balls like this just exacerbates the problem. It provides a ready abdication of the responsibility for the decision to throw acid in someone's face. It's as if they're being told that couldn't possibly know it was wrong without being told by someone paid by the state.
"How was I meant to not maim someone there was no outreach worker to tell me not to and that's society's fault."
All this talk of "The streets" needs to f*** off too. They make the rods for their own backs every day.