The newspapers that I review constantly use the terms yobs and thugs to describe the derelict young population wreaking havoc across the country. As I looked up yob, I found this "backslang for boy" and "A person who engages in antisocial behavior/behaviour and/or drunkenness." from Wikipedia. Also sometimes called yobbos.
Anytime the newspapers write about these terrible nuisances, it is about this pervasiveness their behavior and how the police are doing little to crack down on this.
When I read the Bournemouth Daily Echo today, it had an unusual way of dealing with this. http://www.bournemouthecho.co.uk/display.var.2261678.0.terror_teen_is_banned_from_estate.php
So, the gist of the above article is that the person is banned from appearing in 3 locations, and is not allowed to congregate with 4 specific other people or congregate in groups of more then 4 youths, unless accompanied by adult supervision. That hardly constitutes much of a punishment. This type of "punishment" is called an ASBO, Anti-Social Behavior Offense (??) No time served in a juvenile detention center, which is what the US would have done.
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