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 Posted: Sun Oct 22, 2006 4:21 pm Post subject: UK: "paedophobia" is becoming a national phenomeno |
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Hooded silhouettes lingering in shop doorways and beneath bus shelters carry a potent message of menace for most adults. For Britain has become a place increasingly fearful of its teenage population, a forthcoming report will warn.
Britons are more likely than other Europeans to blame young people for antisocial behaviour, according to extracts from a study by the Institute for Public Policy Research released yesterday, and they are also less inclined to intervene if they find teenagers causing trouble.
The study finds that 65% of Germans, 52% of Spanish and 50% of Italians would be willing to intervene if they saw a group of 14-year-old boys vandalising a bus shelter - but just 34% of Britons would be willing to do the same. Thirty-nine per cent of Britons would avoid a confrontation for fear of physical attack.
In a deprived part of east London yesterday, residents of Canning Town's run-down estates may have special reason to be scared - two months ago a man was murdered on a local street, allegedly after a series of altercations with teenagers.
But it appears that an aversion to young people, or "paedophobia", is becoming a national phenomenon. |
http://society.guardian.co.uk/youthjustice/story/0,,1928835,00.html |
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Yu_Bum_suk
Joined: 25 Dec 2004
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| Posted: Sun Oct 22, 2006 6:08 pm Post subject: |
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The study finds that 65% of Germans, 52% of Spanish and 50% of Italians would be willing to intervene if they saw a group of 14-year-old boys vandalising a bus shelter - but just 34% of Britons would be willing to do the same. Thirty-nine per cent of Britons would avoid a confrontation for fear of physical attack.
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And in Korea ... first the boys get slapped upside the head by Adjoshi no. 1 and Ajumma no. 1 while Adjoshi no. 2 rings the police, who come and slap them around before hauling them to their school for a beating from their homeroom teacher and the enforcer teacher, who send them home for more beatings from Omah and Apah.
Oddly enough I've never even heard of, much less seen, 14-year-old boys vandalising a bus shelter over here. |
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