Public Exposure

A letter to a newspaper's editor complaining about young offenders.
2002, 310 words, 0 source(s).

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Dear Sir I'm writing to you because I want to publicly express my thoughts about a very serious problem, a problem which tortures our society.I'm talking about young offenders, those of about 16-18 years old who seem to be the cause of a big part of the crime which keeps going on.These juveniles do just about anything to cause trouble: vandalism, burglaries, kerb-crawling.... the list is endless. And what do WE do?We arrest them, put them in jail for a few days, soon they are out, and they start doing the same things all over again."But what can we do?", I hear you ask. All we have to do is support the measures proposed recently by the home secretary, Michael Howard , who chalenges one of the fundamental principles of the English law,and suggests that young offenders' names should be puplished in magasines and newspapers to be known by the public.In other words he suggests that these young troublemakers should be exposed and shamed. And I agree with him 100%. The threat of public exposure will encourage young offenders to face up to the effects of their crimes.This will also have, hopefully, some effect on the parents too, who will be forced to be more strict and control their children because, as the ministers believe, parents are the key to reforming youngsters' behaviour.And that has to be done before they grow up, because there will be no conrolling them then.So no more anonymity, and no more "Blitz Boy" kind of nicknames which only glorify the young troublemakers and make them look like heroes, but full publication of offenders' genuine name.And we'll then see how many will dare doing something that will result in that. Because a thing like that not only humiliates the offender, but also destroyes his future, and eliminates his chances of finding a proper job. Yours faithfully