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The notion of young people shoplifting, engaging in anti-social behaviour and running amok is a noble Lord, Lord Blencathra-style caricature—no disrespect to him—and kind of like a Daily Mail image. When those activities are happening, there is no intervention using the laws that we already have. A lot of these things are already illegal. They are certainly anti-social and actually criminal activities, but nobody does anything. So I am worried about having too open-ended a criminalising clause that can be doled out to people but will not necessarily tackle the problem.