http://society.guardian.co.uk/crimeandpunishment/comment/0,8146,1560343,00.html
Tom Robinson
"More punishment doesn't necessarily result in less crime - witness a juvenile jail population already at record numbers and growing. Of course wickedness exists and society has to be protected from it. Of course it's unacceptable to be mugged, assaulted or burgled.
Yet the real issue is not how harshly young offenders should be chastised, but how to stop as many of them as possible from offending again. A 1998 study by the National Association for the Care and Resettlement of Offenders found that young prisoners were very likely to have suffered deprivation of all kinds, including physical and sexual abuse and mental illness."
