What do people think of younger people (Under 21s) and about youth crime in the UK?
Sam Senior – I am 45, so not just older, but ‘old’. I see a lot of younger people around the city where I live, many of them belonging to different sorts of groups. By and large I don’t find them at all threatening. They are just expressing their own individuality (on the one hand) and also their wish to bond with other people who dress the same. But there are some younger people who are invariably wearing hoodies, invariably smoking and swearing, and invariably acting aggressively – often near the shopping malls. They might just be ‘fronting’ but they give kids a bad name. The assumption I make is that these are the kids who are doing the crimes – probably to pay for drugs. I could be wrong …………………. h’mmnn don’t think so though. The other thing is young black kids. I wish the state would step in and make their mothers actually parent them, because my feeling is that they get into gangs (and all the knife stuff that goes with it) because they need to ‘create themselves a
