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Vicious crime about to be committed when green sponge ball is cruelly smashed into child’s head |
Or, a whole lot of things we took for granted as stuff kids do has been relabeled as crimes, turning a nation of kids into a nation of victims. I wonder what the ‘crime’ rate is here in the US.
Almost all children aged 10-15 are victims of crime
Being a victim of crime is now the norm for most children in Britain, according to research that reveals that 95% of 10- to 15-year-olds in the country have experienced crime at least once.
A survey by the Howard League for Penal Reform of more than 3,000 children found that almost three-quarters had been assaulted over the previous year, and that two-thirds had been victims of theft. More than half the children had seen their property deliberately damaged, while others reported threats or verbal abuse.
The study, entitled Children as victims: child-sized crimes in a child-sized world, found the majority of incidents occurred in schools and playgrounds, with much of the rest being between school and home. But children were unlikely to report incidents to police or teachers because they felt those adults would not be interested.
Not being picked for a school yard ball game or being called a dork is obviously abuse on a major scale.
My inner child gets assaulted every day.
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Britain has crime? They must not have enough surveillance cameras.
#2 – problem with security cameras? Got something to hide?
See, this is why we need to chip every every man woman and newborn child.
Good lord. Is someone’s panties too tight over there in England? Or was the original article a satire to point out how silly the laws are getting over there?
Do you think the other 5% are the kids doing the crime, or are they such losers that no one wants to rob them?
It’d be interesting to know the percentage of kids that commit crime as well….
the line between victimhood and offending is often blurred
I think it should read “the line between victimhood and just being offended is often blurred”.
The League wants to see more conflict resolution in schools, including perhaps restorative justice, with aggressors making amends to victims.
Oh yes.
Just what we need.
A juvenile justice system on a school-by-school basis.
Rules of evidence, sworn statements, attorney’s fees…
So, if Bobby smashes Timmy’s cell-phone, you’re going to garnish Bobby’s lunch money to pay for Timmy’s new phone – plus compensation for mental anguish, etc…
#8 – I agree Mike… but I have to ask, why the fuck does Timmy have a cell phone in the first place?
Can I go off topic for just a brief moment? (that is a rhetorical question, because you know that I can and I will…)
KIDS DO NOT NEED CELL PHONES, especially young kids in grade school!
Okay… I’m done.
#3 – Yes, I have a lot to hide: where I go, what I do, who I go/do it with, what I buy, where I buy it, why I buy it, how much I paid for it, what I watch on Tv, where I go on the internet, my name, my address, my social-security number, my bank info, my height, my weight, my eye-color – I could go on all day.
Do I hide it because I am doing something wrong? No, I hide it because IT IS NONE OF YOUR OR ANY STUPID GOVERNMENT’S DAMN BUSINESS.
As for the article, why don’t we stop mincing words and go ahead and tell our kids that they are helpless and can’t deal with anything on their own? “We need a government entity to ensure our safety from the bullies!!” (/sarc) When I was a kid, if anyone verbally assaulted me, they would be physically assaulted back (or sometimes vice-versa!) This ‘everybody’s a victim’ mentality is castrating the future generation. Why not teach the kids self-reliance and common decency, and leave the law out of it? Does the golden rule have to be made into law before someone pays attention to it?
The next thing you know there will be ATM sized machines on every corner, and if I say ‘Shit’, a ticket will emerge saying “There is a 56.7% chance that your remark could have offended someone within 20 meters of this area. This is your fifth offense. You are fined one-tenth of your travel and entertainment privilege” (anybody remember the profanity fines from Judge Dredd??)
OhForTheLoveOf KIDS DO NOT NEED CELL PHONES, especially young kids in grade school!
But if you don’t have access to all the cctv cameras (and if you aren’t police, secret service or one of their friends you don’t) you have to be able to spy on your kids somehow: http://www.childlocate.co.uk/
LOVe those glasses…
And what do we do in the USA, when it can be proven that Major crime is being committed on 100% of taxpayers??
Anyone know, if we have a right to sue those corps working for the Gov, at 10 times the rate of USA workers?? Sue for those faulty Vests?? Sue for misappropriation of funds ???
That’s not a kid — it’s a “little person” with a 5 o’clock shadow (the one in the rear). Explains it all – little people are posing as students and whacking those poor youngsters!
Or maybe it is a kid and he just ate one of those ridiculous Oreo pizzas….
One Word…… Bollocks
i feel thats constructive enough
Being an Anglophile to the core, I’ve always said that whatever Yanks can do, Brits do better – and that obviously includes being politically correct.
Idiocies such as this do serve a valid purpose, though; some people who might not notice more subtle examples of PC at work can see the absurdity of this crap a mile off, and hopefully reflect a bit on it. And some of those who do will thereafter listen to “statistics” like this with a jaundiced eye, like that classic gross exaggeration that ‘a majority of college-age women have been victims of sexual assault,’ which includes in the definition of sexual assault things like being whistled at on the street…
Religious ideologues are not alone in stretching things to absurd extremes to win the point, political ideologues do it, too. In fact – ALL ideologues do it; it’s one of the traits that define them as ideologues!
It’s all, at bottom, about deliberately, knowingly exaggerating things to make one’s message more effective, to make your cause stand out; and it’s felt to be OK to stretch, exaggerate and embellish as long as it’s done in a “noble” cause, like protecting children, or promoting equal rights, or spreading the Gospel of Christ. The Jesuits gave the Western world this rationalization for deception: ‘for whom the end is lawful, the means are lawful also’.
Interesting, especially in light of the sort of things that Catholic leaders have been caught at in recent years… like protecting pedophile priests, since their work for God is more important than any Earthly harm to a mere human child.
There is a new academy(school) being built in London where there is no play ground. It’s where the most injuries to children occur plus they have decided that kids don’t need to play outdoors. There are no recesses, but there is a 30 min lunch time but they can’t leave the building, and there are 2 or 3 twen minute breaks that are supervised by teachers and take place in the building.
The sad part is no one see’s anything wrong with this. When the Headmaster was approached about it, he said ithey didn’t need play time, only supervised *creative* play time and indoors. They can play at home he said. Problem being that more and more kids are not playing at home because parents are over protective. And parents are moving into this district so there kids can go to this school…..
#10 – (anybody remember the profanity fines from Judge Dredd??)
Well I do now… Thanks a lot! 🙁
Okay so who in school didn’t have stuff stolen or property damaged. At least for men it’s just part of growing up. I think this is universal and has nothing to do with what country you live in.
http://society.guardian.co.uk/youthjustice/story/0,,840605,00.html
“I have to say I’m all for public flogging. One type of criminal that a public humiliation might work particularly well with are the juvenile delinquents, a lot of whom consider it a badge of honor to be sent to juvenile detention. And it might not be such a cool thing in the ‘hood to be flogged publicly” — Ann Coulter
Hey, it happened to Thomas Edison when he was a boy (for somehow igniting somebody’s barn or shed) and it didn’t ruin him for life!
You might not think that is a good idea, but you can’t deny that it would be a lot more effective, or at least simpler, than the monitoring, rehabilitating, probation, Ritalin, therapy and self esteem bullcrop.
18,
DUH…
and if you didnt, I want to know the NAME of the school
Man all of yall dont knwo aht yall takin about..Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and local authorities do little to stop it or prosecute those responsible, a U.N. investigator said on Monday.
Rape and brutality against women and girls are “rampant and committed by non-state armed groups, the Armed Forces of the DRC, the National Congolese Police, and increasingly also by civilians”, said Turkish lawyer Yakin Erturk.
“Violence against women seems to be perceived by large sectors of society to be normal,” she added in a report after an 11-day trip to the strife-torn country.
Erturk, special rapporteur for the United Nations Human Rights Council on violence against women, said the situation in South Kivu province, where rebels from neighbouring Rwanda operate, was the worst she had ever encountered.
The atrocities perpetrated there by armed groups, some of whom seemed to have been involved in the 1994 Rwandan massacres in which 800,000 people were killed, “are of an unimaginable brutality that goes far beyond rape”, she said.
“Women are gang raped, often in front of their families and communities. In numerous cases, male relatives are forced at gun point to rape their own daughters, mothers or sisters,” she said.
After rape, many women were shot or stabbed in the genital area, and survivors told Erturk that while held as slaves by the gangs they had been forced to eat excrement or the flesh of their murdered relatives.
Widespread sexual abuse in the various conflicts racking the republic — which last year held elections hailed as marking a new era — “seems to have become a generalised aspect of the overall oppression of women”, Erturk said.
Her report followed charges from U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights Louise Arbour last week that soldiers and police used excessive force, including summary executions, in quelling opposition protesters in the west of the DRC earlier this year.
In the central Equateur province, the police and army often responded to civil unrest “with organised armed reprisals that target the civilian population and involve indiscriminate pillage, torture and mass rape”, the report found.
Although the DRC parliament outlawed sexual violence in July 2006, “little action is taken by the authorities to implement the law and perpetrators continue to enjoy immunity, especially if they wear the state’s uniform,” Erturk said.
Erturk said Congo’s justice system was corrupt and in “a deplorable state”, while conditions in prisons were “scandalous”.
Senior army and police officers shielded their men from prosecution, and when some were arrested they escaped easily, probably “with the complicity of those in charge”.
In a few cases courts had ordered the state and individuals to compensate victims. But “to this day the government has not paid reparations to a single victim who has suffered sexual violence at the hand of state agents”, said Erturk.