Academics can’t see through the ‘feral youth’ smokescreen
February 18th, 2009 by Site Admin
In his latest piece for The Guardian, published and posted online today, Mark tackles the problem of scaremongering in the media that was fuelled by last week’s Centre for Social Justice report.
“The CSJ deserves credit for expanding thinking in this area and recognising the huge underlying problems. But I admit to reading the report with a sinking feeling. Here we go again … a lot of stuff about enforcement, but nothing about incentives to change or about the power of the community to change itself from within. And there just isn’t enough emphasis on the emotional deprivation at the heart of the problem.”
Read the rest of Mark’s latest article for the Guardian newspaper
March 12th, 2009 at 12:22 pm
We had the Criminal justice come into school for the day with loads of other organistaions and it was great and we got really into it. We found out lots of stuff but now to be honest its rubbish that we dont get nothing after that from them and some of the people who worked for them I mean I ent being funny but they were like scared of us talking to them and I think you need the right people in the jobs that what makes the differnce sometime you get sick of being told what not to do and you should just stop talking bout all that and say how to do it not not to do stuff its just pathetic. Anyway thats what I think