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MELANIE PHILLIPS: The dangerously deluded children's tsar and the truth about knife crime | Mail Online

With the reality sinking in that knife and Gun Crime is now a UK youth problem gone mad and NOT the BLACK problem that we had been led to believe.... is it time to admit that STOP & SEARCH will almost certainly return before long..and any arguements about its discrimination against Blacks is weaken by every new murder on our streets..

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The belief that prison only makes things worse means that few are ever locked up. Only one knife offender in 17 is jailed; many aren't even brought before the courts, but are let off with a warning or a caution.

A senior member of the judiciary, Sir Igor Judge, has said knife crime has to be 'confronted and stopped' by severe sentences for possession of knives.

Yet Sentencing Council guidelines say that the 'starting point' for those caught with knives should be a community order.

But such community penalties result in an even worse rate of re- offending than prison sentences - and without the relief given to beleaguered communities while offenders are actually taken off the streets.

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The Home Secretary is pleading with parents to persuade their children not to carry knives. But since the problem is often a chronic failure of parental control, this is worse than feeble.

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He would like to criminalise parents who smack their children, claims that Britain has moved on from an era of ' authoritarianism' when 'you did what you were told', and has called on the police to ' understand' young people better.

Supporting the notion that children should not do what they are told, and thus undermining parental authority, he perfectly represents the view that has wrought havoc with young people's development for the past four decades - that children should tell adults what to do.

Far from safeguarding children's 'rights', Sir Al embodies the infantilisation of the adult world which, through its irresponsibility, has left our young people racketing around in a wilderness with no boundaries and no compass.

The overwhelming cause of their wild behaviour is the collapse of family life. The violence of their rage and grief at their abandonment by (in the main) their fathers plays out in the violence they mete out to others.

The catastrophic breakdown of parenting, emotional chaos and absence of love and care in their disorderly homes increasingly results in aggression as their instinctive response to the slightest setback.

Such children desperately need the strongest possible supporting structures of boundaries, discipline and order to keep them from falling apart. But instead, the adult world at every level - from parents to teachers, social workers, police, the courts and politicians - has knocked those supports away.

Drink-related crime is now out of control, thanks to the liberalisation of alcohol laws. Drug policy has given young people the most mixed of signals, while the failure to control drug trafficking has flooded the market with dangerous drugs and fuelled an explosion in drug-related crime.