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Jacqui Stafford	Perversity in Sentencing	Lead	[-]
Posts: 6948 ( 1 Jul, 2009 9:35 PM) Courtyard Genius Moderator Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	Tags : None In 1963, fifteen men were sent to prison for thirty years for stealing government money. In 2009, three men were sent to prison for 'at least nineteen years' for murdering a sixteen year old boy. In 2009, several Members of Parliament were discovered stealing government money and they got told off. Is anyone else apart from me puzzled about the inconsistencies in the treatment of these offenders? Last Edited By: Jacqui Stafford 1 Jul, 2009 9:37 PM. Edited 1 time.
Wolf 2uk		#1	[-]
Registered Member Posts: 422 ( 1 Jul, 2009 9:48 PM) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	Puzzled No. You see they in the Mother of Parliments, work on a bases of " "Four legs are good, but two legs are better". I do hope that clears the miss-understanding up. We are the Sheep.
Diamond Rose		#2	[-]
Posts: 2329 ( 2 Jul, 2009 1:56 AM) Rebel Angel Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	Jacqui Stafford wrote: In 2009, three men were sent to prison for 'at least nineteen years' for murdering a sixteen year old boy. I'm surprised they got that much. ~ Bruce
Alvida		#3	[-]
Posts: 8235 ( 2 Jul, 2009 8:28 PM) Alvida Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	I read a comment the other day about how when the teddy boys were going round slashing each other with razors harsh sentences were handed out and it ceased, I wasn't there so I don't know but if it's true and knife crime today was handled that way it would've stopped before it got to the stage of 16 year old kids being murdered.
Wolf 2uk		#4	[-]
Registered Member Posts: 427 ( 2 Jul, 2009 10:46 PM) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	Where I lived in London, there were Gang fights and Teddy boys, but the only casualties were the members of the Gangs never innocent on lookers. But one reason why when the sentences were passed on those caught it had a positive effect in that the fights became less, was there was respect for Police officers, there was respect for those who lead us(Politicians ), and more important there was a Families, not as now tribes. I feel very sorry for some of those Young born in Cities and Town, with little hope of a future, what the Hell have they got to look forward to. Yes we had un-employment and yes sometime times were tough, but there was order, not sometime right but it was there, now it's a Jungle out there. One story to illustrate where Parents played there part. I got mixed in with some dodgy people, and we used to hang out in a Cafe. One night I was sitting with the rest, when suddenly my Mother appeared at the door. She pointed at me and I followed her home, and I was 17yrs old and very full of myself, so the control was there and it saved many from falling into the pit.
Alvida		#5	[-]
Posts: 8236 ( 2 Jul, 2009 11:02 PM) Alvida Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	Yeah that's highly unlikely to happen now, and while Childline has done a world of good for what it's meant for kids threaten their parents with it when there is no abuse, simply for disciplining them. We've gone from one extreme, where kids had little protection, to the other, where they're a law unto themselves. We have more broken homes now and for some reason boys seem less willing to accept discipline off their mother, people will blame the parents, but if a boy is growing up on a high rise estate, part of a gang, it's going to be very difficult for his mother to get through to him, and you can't even blame the kids for being in gangs because they watch each others' back, of course it brings trouble too but they don't see it like that. They make a good point in the film Clockers, the only way to really get out is to escape properly, get far away from the place.

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