Thursday, August 24, 2006

When did 'hanging around' become a social problem? Spiked, 23 Aug 2006

http://www.spiked-online.com/index.php?/site/article/1504/
Josie Appleton
"From the 'Barry Manilow Method' to the screeching Mosquito: bizarre ways the British authorities are trying to keep kids off the streets this summer. [..] These bizarre attempts at crowd control provide a snapshot of adult unease about young people. Teenagers are treated almost as another species, immune to reasoning and social sanction. Just as cattle are directed with electric shocks, or cats are put off with pepper dust, so teenagers are prodded with Manilow, Mozart or the Mosquito. ‘Make them go away’ is the only thought here. " [Public Order; Young People]