Comments on: Crime and violence

By: Dave

Dave — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 02:07:49 +0000

And for those we send to Jail mae it a tough place! Not Anarky! I mean tough as in hard work no luxeries such as Xboxes.

By: Dave

Dave — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 02:06:03 +0000

I can suggest 2 things mainly. Stop all this PC nonsense! Repeal human rights act! BIRCH all shoplifters, thieves, assailants, people charged with affray, football hooligans, thugs, drug users, drug dealers and drunken louts!
Teach and reward responsible society.

By: Annie

Annie — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 18:59:05 +0000

Some angry people who feel very let down by the “system”. I acknowledge your comments everyone and add my suggestions. I think yes we should stop excusing criminal behaviour- start feeling justified in appropriate punishment- then addressing compensation and reparation. Individual victims should be at the centre of the process, they should be informed and should gain compensation from the perpertrator. Criminals should not live in comfort whilst taxpayers struggle.Jails should be positive places but definitely punish wrongdoing and sanctions should apply. Crime is a behavioural problem, people will make any excuse to carry on bad behaviour and punishment helps to correct bad behaviour very quickly.Restricting freedom , hard work, challenging negative thinking, establishing supportive and mentoring groupwork can help when used as a combination approach. Cruellty should never be used it connects peoples’behaviour with violence again. A new approach to crime prevention is required, even changing policing from a militarised type force to a public organisation working with and for the people. I think we have to admit that modern policing has failed, bin it and look at solutions from all over the world. Cherrypick the best and adapt it to modern Britain. It should concentrate on serving the people, protecting life and limb- patrolling the streets, visiting homes, checking up on aged, disabled and frail and avoid the endless bureacracy which stifles and constipates.

By: jizel webbe

jizel webbe — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 21:03:27 +0000

to all the young people i want to say put down the gun life is at risk

By: casey

casey — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 11:43:55 +0000

its the end of the world as we no it

By: A. Wills

A. Wills — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 20:24:49 +0000

There should be more apprenticeship schemes set up to provide a trade and employment for young men. Not all young men are aceademic or able to go to university. This can lead them with no prospect of employment and nothing to do. They should be trained to be plumbers, builders, electricians etc. This used to be done in the past. If young men had something useful and worthwhile to do maybe they wouldn’t turn to crime so much.

By: Mark

Mark — Wed, 07 May 2008 09:37:58 +0000

Crime and violence are a route of choice for many people today. They choose them not because they can’t put bread on the family table but because they want a Rolex or want an i-Pod.

Our language for crime and criminal behaviour smacks still of the early twentieth century. We assume that ‘victims’ can be perpetrators and that there is an excuse for their violence based on prejudice, alienation and poverty. I want to suggest that perpetrators are rarely ‘victims’ – that is, reasoned and premeditated perpetrators. The culture of the ‘court report’ – in which the life circumstances of the perpetrator are set against the crime and ‘cancel out’ or ‘explain’ part of it – is a very quaint notion, and assumes that criminals form, or come from, a class of the dispossessed in much the way that characters in Arthur Morrison’s Child of the Jago do.

Life is not like that. We are no longer seeing assaults and criminal violence as exclusively the work of some Dickensian underclass – and even if it were, their circumstances could barely be an excuse.

We have to engage with the simple notion that what you do is your responsibility – even if you are on drugs. In Lynn Truss’s words ‘The beer made me do it’ is simply a ridiculous statement in mitigation. Your choice to offer violence to take my Rolex (incidentally, I don’t have one unlike the bling-encrusted street thugs) is entirely yours. Nothing ‘makes you’ knife me for the watch.

We need to abolish the social and other excuses for personal decisions in most circumstances. We need to take away the excuses, the mitigation claims, the whole language of equality of ‘victimhood’ between the victim of crime and its perpetrator.

By: Mr Raymond Ashley (Pensioner)

Mr Raymond Ashley (Pensioner) — Tue, 06 May 2008 18:52:04 +0000

The whole of the complaints system should be dismantled and brought out into the open with a body of people who are totally Independant of the Government / or Religion, and set up into regions across the Country, whom the layman/woman could turn to with their evidence and if they qualify for Legal Aid it should automatically be granted to take on those that have badly let them down,particularly because these people are immune from prosecution, and that’s why they are getting away with it. Trying to find a Lawyer in this once great British County to take them on, simply beggars belief,
and I have sent hundreds of email’s out all over the Country and only Chambers in Doherty Street London responded and advised me to obtain a Solicitor and that they would be willing to speak to with a view of putting it before Counsel,
sadly if you haven’t fallen of the pavement slip trip /or car accident they are not interested.Without question one needs to be a criminal, child abuser, drug pusher or the like to get on in this Country and that’s why the tradesmen have left in droves leaving all the DIY merchants, and so who on earths going to learn them skills. As a time served Ex Master bricklayer practically skilled all trades now retired I can guarantee that if the youngsters of today do not take on an apprenticeship at the age of 15, working along side a first class tradesman then forget it.I would also smack these bird brained architects who have destroyed the building trade with their wooden houses that are guaranteed to burn to the ground, and the tin sheds they call supermarkets, which blow over in the storms, and bring back the 13ft ceilings in flood planes, with three steps at the front door, and brick up the shore lines in water bond. I would also take away the National Lottery money from this Government who are falsely claiming that they have got Unemployment down when it’s the British people who have done it them selves and it will continue.The lists endless. Raymond Ashley

By: Mr Raymond Ashley (Pensioner)

Mr Raymond Ashley (Pensioner) — Tue, 06 May 2008 14:49:39 +0000

The whole of the establishment are the problem in this Country for the simply reason that they all work for the Government and receive a bonus and some with honours, and I have dealt with them all, right up to the IPCC and not a single one investigates any bodies problems at all. Indeed, it doesn’t matter what evidence what one supplies these institutions the result always ends up the same, with shameful lies “We have thoroughly investigated the matter and found nothing wrong” The Police use all the dirtyies tactics every imaginable knowing that there are in built time limits
all unknown to the layman/woman. They deliberately fiddle the crime figures, by using a Misc No 234 or/ what ever number. The IPCC had an ex Police Officer on it’s board next to the Chief Constable of Cheshire Constabulary which only came to light when he was found guilty on 26 charges of harrasing his neighbours in Warrington.All three Ombudsmen in England are all Ex Chief Executives of Councils. The only time the Police act is when there is a murder which they are compelled by Law. Finish up like a cabbage and it only receives local publicity, and even child abusers are allowed their freedom in the County / or out of it.Raymond Ashley VICTIM of 27 years. 100% character.

By: Barrie Singleton

Barrie Singleton — Tue, 06 May 2008 10:45:43 +0000

JOSEPH ROWNTREE – ERIC BERNE

Joseph Rowntree called upon us all to seek out the fundamental causes of weakness and evil in society.
Eric Berne gave us a succinct view of self-and-others; the tool required to achieve the above aim.

I would assert that (whether evil comes from social incompetence or – if such is your view – from letting the Devil in) its root cause IS weakness; the weakness of the individual.

In Berne’s terms, weakness amounts to an under-developed Adult ego state* in the psyche; a condition I see as pertaining all over the planet. The two terrible truths of society, are: (1) individual weakness is increasing, and (2) the overcompensating-weak, rise to positions of power. Consequently, any corrective effort must reach out directly to the very young as the Powers That Be are, instinctively, fearful of general empowerment.

I have synthesised an approach. It can be found http://www.barriesingleton.co.uk as outlined in 1995 to Rowntree. Click on “Visionary Stuff”.

Only wisdom empowers; cleverness is inclined to enslave. Development of a strong Adult ego state engenders wisdom and is vital to individual, family, group, state and world stability. Adult strength is the ultimate answer to every weakness and evil.

* Transactional Analysis http://changingminds.org/explanations/behaviors/ta.htm