The Home Office

The Home Office website, outlines how they intend to reduce youth crime as currently "Youth crime harms communities, creates a culture of fear and damages the lives of some of our most vulnerable young people."

This website sucessfully outlines the factors which, they feel, have caused youth-crime to increase over the past few years. They are:

- troubled home life
- poor attainment at school, truancy and school exclusion
- drug or alcohol misuse and mental illness
- deprivation such as poor housing or homelessness
- peer group pressure

As you can see, these factors are all constantly reinforced by the governments views of youths, particularly black youths, and also that of the media's who reguarly issue stories in newspapers about how society should be aware of the increasing rates of crime coming from youths.