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We have a problem of young men for trivial reasons indulging in violence. We have cultural and social problems, and the collapse of adult authority in reining in alienated, disenfranchised young men. There are big cultural issues that demand our urgent attention. But how is rounding up young men for hanging around together and indulging an aggressive violent counterculture and then sending them into prison—where gang culture becomes replicated and normalised when they have not actually committed a crime—going to help? I do not know how we can think that that will help; it will just make things a lot worse.