Antisocial adfærd blandt unge

The reason why many young people behave antissocially is that they don’t have anything to do after school if they attend a school. The amount of 16-17 year-olds not in education, employment or training has increased from 7 percent to 9 percent since 1997. That’s not a positive increase – especially not in the future. It will have a harmful effect on the economy, and it’s certainly not good for the young people if they drop out at the age of 16. One substantial problem is that many young people don’t attend any school; they are the “drop outs”, and this is able to threat young disturbed minds and that has contributed to the excessive growth of criminal activities among young people.

In the first article Tony Blair comprehensibly tries to step up a campaign to tackle antisocial behaviour. His idea is to have an “army” of 24,000 community support officers, whose primary job is to force errant schoolchildren back to school and help families from disadvantaged communities. The support officers will be deployed in 200 schools with the biggest problems. According to Mr. Blair there are intractable problems with the behaviour of some families and individuals, which can make the life of other people living in the most disadvantaged communities literally miserable. But Mr. Blair has apparently not thought of the fact that people who live in disadvantaged communities literally have a life which is so bad, that it is incomprehensible to understand that people who live in a country, which is relatively economically burgeoning, can have such a bad life. That means the individuals don’t make the life of other people miserable, their life is already miserable. The problem is the fact that politicians don’t know how life is in those communities. They do only come up with solutions to solve problems, but they don’t know how to solve. These problems are headache mixtures; they are indeed very difficult to solve and they need many resources. The sentence in the first text: “problem families will be required to go on compulsory rehabilitation courses...“ I don’t think that it is a good idea. Problem families shall volunteer in these activities - not be required to go on rehabilitation. It is a good idea to help young people financially, but it is also important to know what the financial help goes to. Many young people will probably use the money to buy drugs etc. They should use the financial help in another way, like beginning to sports – e.g. football or horse riding. By having an hobby, they will be a part of a football team, or they could be a part of the unity in the stable or something. This will probably help the young people into another circle of friends.