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Friday, 5th September 2008

Youth crime

Lack of role models drive young people to join gangs ONE in three young people in Scotland does not have a parent it regards as a role model, according to a new report.

Youths hurl stones at pensioners on bus ELDERLY passengers on a shopping trip were forced to duck for cover as stone-throwing youths pelted their bus.

Flagship junior Asbos cost £½m each in taxpayers' cash JUNIOR antisocial behaviour orders (Asbos) for youngsters, the flagship youth-crime policy of the previous Labour-led Scottish Executive, proved so unsuccessful that only 14 were ever issued in Scotland, at a cost of £500,000 each, it emerge

Scotland: a nation failing its children SCOTTISH children are being denied the right to play by a society which increasingly treats them with fear and suspicion, a hard-hitting report to the United Nations will claim this week.

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